The Plan to Turn the Caribbean’s Glut of Sargassum Into Biofuel

Quintana Ru Sargasam Monitoring Network Director Estaban has agreed that fuel is the best product for focusing. It is possible to supply marine to other consumer products, but the health risks of doing so cannot be provided continuously.

“I believe that the purpose of the sargasam is to produce energy, because when it is decomposed it reveals many heavy metals like arsenic, lead and cadmium,” said to me. “Therefore it is better to produce biofuel or biogas than daily products like clothing or shoes”

A possible source of carbon credit

In the disposal of sargasam, there is another effective product-Sargapanel, Mexico is a construction material built by researchers of the National Autonomous University (UNAM). These panels use 60 to 70 kilos of wet sargasum per piece and provide a number of benefits than conventional paneling: the material is about 33 percent more flexible, more resistant to the effect and it is a fire return. Furthermore, no chemical additive is used in its production, so it can be recyclable: Once its life cycle is finished, it can be cut and re -integrated into the production line.

“With this project, we simply not contribute to reduce the problem … We also generate profit from carbon credit. A carbon credit is generated for every 5 tonnes of wet sargasam and each credit is valuable between $ 10 and $ 30,” the chief of the Sergapanel in the center of CRAM called Miriam Ganjelz.

Estvage assumes that if processed in 4,000 tonnes of dry lakes per year, it will earn annual profit $ 80,000 to $ 240,000 as well as absorb the equivalent of 8,000 tons of CO₂The “With a comparison we will remove about a thousand cars from circulation,” he says.

CFATA scientists, with the help of other UNAM department academics, have created several products, including the surgbox-cardboard packaging boxes that can be used to remove contaminants from water with fire-resistant filters with microplastics.

“In the case of Sargapanel, we have already necessary scientific studies and a registered and scalable utility model that is completely competitive, and we are going to some organizations that are the leader of construction materials,” Estevez said.

February 28, the Governor of Quintana Rue Mara Mara Lazama Espinosa announced the formation Sargaso broad sanitation and notifications center centerWhose aim is to remove macrology from being considered as an economic and environmental resource as an economic and environmental resource. If processed in chronic physical products, it can lock the carbon to increase it from the environment; If a biofuel is converted into fuel, it can avoid some fossil fuel emissions.

The center will mainly promote the production of biogas and organic fertilizers to promote the products for products products that are usually published when making and using greenhouse gases. The center will then sell carbon credit on the back of this emission.