Seaweed has great potential to help tackle climate change by absorbing CO2 as it grows, and locating seaweed farms between offshore wind turbines uses untapped space in our oceans. Amazon has announced it is funding the world’s first commercial-scale seaweed farm located between offshore wind turbines (shown here in a computer-generated image courtesy of Smartland landscape architecture). The project known as North Sea Farm 1 will be located in a wind farm off the coast of the Netherlands. It has been designed to test and improve methods of seaweed farming while researching seaweed’s potential to sequester carbon – this being the process of capturing, removing and storing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the earth’s atmosphere.
