Test Farm
We have already successfully built and operated a test farm on the island of St. Vincent. We have several remaining knowledge gaps, which we will fill in a three-month extended trial. The farm will be constructed using our proprietary barrier technology.
Location
St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG)
Outcomes
• Prove year-round stable stock
• Measure impact of farm on dissolved oxygen and pH of water in and around farm
• Characterization of fish biodiversity
• Definitive calculation on growth rates
Validation Farm
We will establish our first small-scale ‘Catch & Grow’ farm to test commercial viability. This will involve building a 1,000 metre barrier to catch Sargassum in a channel where it regularly influxes, before moving the seaweed to a stationary farm nearby. The Sargassum can then be used in industry and any remaining biomass will be sunk at our deep-sea deposition site.
Location
Caribbean
Outcomes
• Generate first revenues from feedstock sales
• Finalise carbon credit methodology
• Test operations and develop training methods for scaling up
• Conduct detailed 3rd party environmental impact assessments on the farm and deep-sea deposits
Once we have proven all elements of our farming and sinking operations we will scale up to build our first three full farms. We then aim to work with delivery partners to scale operations up to 100 farms in the region. When sales channels for credits and biostimulants are established we will expand across the region.
Location
Scale up across the Caribbean region
Outcomes
• Achieve profitability at a site level
• Build blueprint for scale
• Start to develop licensing model from 10 farms onwards
• Ultimately scale to as much as 6,000km2 of farms in the region
Scaled Farm
The Giga Farm will be made up of many smaller, modular farm components.
Giga Farm
Finally we will start to deploy our floating farms in the open ocean. By this stage we will have developed the technology for artificial upwelling, which will unlock open ocean aquafarming. Currently this area of ocean is effectively a desert and establishing upwelling there will bring necessary nutrients to the surface for the Sargassum to prosper, creating oases in the desert.
Location
South Atlantic gyre
Outcomes
• Remove all roadblocks to scaling to 1Gt+ (one gigatonne+) of carbon mitigation
• Merge/join with delivery partners to achieve this scale
• Heal the climate and restore our oceans