With record-breaking quantities of the seaweed set to hit Mexico’s beaches, experts propose converting it into biogas and construction materials, as well as using it to underwrite carbon credits.
Source: The Plan to Turn the Caribbean’s Glut of Sargassum Into Biofuel
tl;dr: can be turned into biogas, building panels, and others. but not a garunteed supply every y4ear, so hard to invest in the necessary factory-sclae facilities.
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“There will be atypical years, like the last one, in which little sargassum arrived, due to changes in ocean currents, but it will continue to arrive, if not in Mexico, then in many parts of the Caribbean,” says Estévez. “We have to learn to be with it and give it a real and efficient use.”
