Norway will attempt to process fish feed commercially using captured carbon dioxide
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Wired] by Duncan Geere - July 16, 2014
Engineers in Norway are experimenting with a use for the carbon dioxide captured from the chimneys of power plants -- feeding it to fish.
Carbon capture technology has advanced rapidly in recent years, but normally the resulting emissions are pumped into vast underground chambers. Instead, a Norwegian consortium thinks it can use the carbon dioxide to grow omega-3 fatty acids from algae.
After oil and gas, seafood is Norway's largest export. The country produces 60 percent of the world's farmed Atlantic salmon. But farmed fish can't gain Omega-3 fatty acids the normal way -- by eating algae and phytoplankton as they grow -- so it has to be added to their feed...
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