Planting Kelp Forests & Seawead
The south-west coast of Africa is ideal for planting kelp-forests to absorb CO2. We are in contact with local authorities to get the allowance for our project. In Australia, we work on a pilot between Melbourne and Adelaide (2024). Kelp is growing up to one meter per day. You need however a depths of at least 40 meters and temperatures with maximum 18 degrees celsius, which is a litte bit different for every kind of kelp. Kelp can be easily grown in greenhouses and planted on the seabed with a new, specific solution from Ocean Quest Per square kilometer you can plant at least 10’000 kelp trees. For a distance of about 1000 km and let’s estimate a possible topollogy in 200 km, at least 2 Mio kelp trees can be planted. We estimate, that we can plant in 2025 about 500’000 little kelp plants and 1 Mio in 2026. Every kelp plant of 45 meters can absorb about 0.5 – 0.8 tons of CO2, and also toxins, microplastic and more !