Blue Carbon Services

Blue Carbon Services is committed to researching and developing practical technologies for growing and sequestering large-scale marine-based organic carbon to mitigate catastrophic climate change.

For example, giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera), which can grow up to half a meter per day, is a highly efficient biological process for removing carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the atmosphere (via CO₂ dissolved in the ocean).

They are working on this technology to restore the earth's carbon balance.Blue Carbon is working on techniques to grow kelp on extended lines beneath the ocean's surface.

These lines will provide a substrate (something the kelp can cling to) in deep water for natural kelp growth. Giant kelp absorbs carbon from the atmosphere three times faster per unit area than the fastest-growing trees.

So they have chosen to grow kelp as it multiplies quickly, reduces ocean acidity, provides nutrition to marine creatures, is a source of nutritious food for humans and animals, and can be converted into bioplastics and bio-fuels to heat homes or power cars.Blue Carbon is working on multiple projects to combine kelp with mussels and salmon aquaculture.

First, they grow kelp in laboratories and transplant it to near-shore mussel farms to see if it helps the mussels. They are also working on quantifying kelp-derived carbon accumulation in deep-sea environments.

Thus, Blue Carbon Services is on a mission to offset current global CO₂ emissions by establishing large-scale kelp-based carbon sequestration systems through environmentally safe technology research and development.

They are also working towards gaining political support for these technologies. According to them, kelp farming cannot compensate for these emissions on its own.

Larger farms must be developed, and opportunities for these farms to be profitable can be identified.