{"id":41935,"date":"2025-08-21T23:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=41935"},"modified":"2025-08-21T23:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:00:19","slug":"the-plan-to-turn-the-caribbeans-glut-of-sargassum-into-biofuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=41935","title":{"rendered":"The Plan to Turn the Caribbean\u2019s Glut of Sargassum Into Biofuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/sargaz2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"152\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">With record-breaking quantities of the seaweed set to hit Mexico\u2019s beaches, experts propose converting it into biogas and construction materials, as well as using it to underwrite carbon credits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/there-is-more-sargassum-than-ever-in-the-caribbean-and-they-want-to-turn-it-into-energy\/\">The Plan to Turn the Caribbean\u2019s Glut of Sargassum Into Biofuel<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThere 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,\u201d says Est\u00e9vez. \u201cWe have to learn to be with it and give it a real and efficient use.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With record-breaking quantities of the seaweed set to hit Mexico\u2019s beaches, experts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[1765,2150],"class_list":["post-41935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-sargassum","tag-upcycling","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41938,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41935\/revisions\/41938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}