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WBUR recently reported on a business that’s working to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere in another technology that’s aimed to help fight climate change. Running Tide Technologies, out of Portland, Maine, is using kelp to sequester carbon.
The technology grows significant amounts of seaweed and then buries it at the bottom of the ocean, where it sequesters carbon continually. Marty Odlin, the CEO of Running Tide Technologies, explained the company’s mission to WBUR, “Essentially what we have to do is run the oil industry in reverse,” he says, “The kelp will sink to the ocean bottom in the sediment, and become, essentially, part of the ocean floor. That gets you millions of years of sequestration. So that’s when you’re making oil. That’s got to be the ultimate goal.”