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Making low-carbon chemicals from sunlight, seawater, and seaweed
We grow insane amounts of corn – about one ton for every person in the United States. Most of it doesn’t end up on dinner plates but in cars, animals…
Apr 7
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Matthew Perkins
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September 2022
Alaska kelp harvest grows by 27%, reaches half a million pounds in 2022
Results from our 2022 survey of Alaskan kelp grower
Sep 12, 2022
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Matthew Perkins
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January 2022
Reflecting on 2021
Before I dive into 2022, I wanted to pause and reflect on what I’ve learned this past year whilst building Macro Oceans.
Jan 1, 2022
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Matthew Perkins
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July 2021
Ready, set, biorefine
Test tubes are rarely sexy, except perhaps when they are full of kelp ...
Jul 2, 2021
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Matthew Perkins
February 2021
Biorefining: the key to kickstarting a seaweed-based bioeconomy
Part 4 of our Exploring Seaweed Series ... So if seaweed is a zero-input crop and we have the potential to grow a lot more and bite into $100bn markets…
Feb 8, 2021
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Matthew Perkins
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January 2021
Seaweed can bite into $100bn+ markets (and save a lot of carbon too)
Part 3 of our Exploring Seaweed Series ... Seaweed is a mainstay of Asian diets. In Japan, on average more than 30 different types of seaweed are…
Jan 20, 2021
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Matthew Perkins
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Seaweed has superpower potential
Today we cultivate about 30m wet tons of seaweed, worth about $6bn at the farm gate. Almost all cultivated seaweed is farmed in Asia, with China and…
Jan 4, 2021
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Matthew Perkins
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December 2020
Seaweed: the heart of a new bio-based economy
Mention macro algae to a friend and most likely you’ll get a puzzled look. Many will think of spirulina but a few will say - you mean seaweed? Yes…
Dec 15, 2020
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Matthew Perkins
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Dec 9, 2020
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Matthew Perkins
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