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BEACH LAUNCH & RECOVERY SYSTEM - The above is a 1:20 scale beach launcher and recovery, amphibious vehicle, to support the SeaVax-Sargasso™ sargassum harvesting machines. This is a working proof of concept working model. This hydraulically operated tracks on this machine can easily haul 150 tons out of the Caribbean Sea. The model is electrically propelled. The full size machine could be diesel in the short term, or other IC engines running on methanol. In the long term, we'd suggest electro-hydraulic drives, operating from renewables.
These machines also need to be economical to purchase and operate. They are only necessary where an island does not have a convenient harbour or marina, from which to service and unload harvested seaweed.
The SeaVax-Sargasso™ is the larger fleet controlled drone, for heading off the bulk of break-away seaweed from the Sargasso Sea. The SeaVax-Calypso™ is the smaller vessel designed more for inland island patrols on a more independent basis, by the islanders themselves.
The SeaVax-Sargasso would work with the AmphMax-Sargasso™ floating dock, where annual servicing of significant fleets may otherwise strain traditional ports and harbour facilities. Equally, the SeaVax-Calypso would operate in tandem with an AmphiMax-Calypso™ - music to the ears of affected islanders, save for attaching funding and political complications; uncertainties abound.
Where the Cleaner Ocean Foundation is a not for profit organization, islanders might operate their local services on a for-profit basis, with the Foundation providing technical and IP assistance.
The Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico are prone to invasion by sargassum, the brown macro algae, or seaweed, now building year on year, spoiling the once pristine beaches of (even) the Virgin Islands, once billed as the US paradise. And it is a situation that is likely to remain for many years, as the sea levels continue to rise, from climate change, while United Nation's persuasions are slowly making inroads into global warming and fossil fuels use, Australia, China, India and Russia would not agree to limit coal use at FLOP 26.
Unfortunately, change is at a snails pace - as the super powers engage in Economic Warfare, and in the case of Vladimir Putin, criminal aggressions - which is why scientists say we will be unable to prevent the only planet we have warming by 2.7 degrees, rather than the target 1.5 degrees of the Paris Agreement in 2015. But then they don't have sargassum and rising sea levels to threaten their existence, in what many are calling Ecocide, the island version of Genocide.
SARGASSUM: Represents an immediate threat to the economics of the Caribbean Islands, the Gulf of Mexico, and African West Coast, but is also a potential asset if it can be economically harvested and used for, among other things, fertilizer for agriculture: where there is a world shortage.
BIOMASS - BUILDING MATERIALS - CANCER TREATMENTS - CLOTHING & SHOES - CO2 SEQUESTRATION - COSMETICS FERTILIZERS - FOODS - MEDICINES - MINERALS - PACKAGING - SUPPLEMENTS - VITAMINS
FOOD
SECURITY: RAMPANT FERTILIZER INFLATION - Officials at the United Nations
are stepping up warnings about the mounting crisis for fertilizers — an essential substance to boost soil fertility
in agriculture
— as vulnerable countries in areas such as Africa grapple with prices that have soared by 300 percent since Russia's war in Ukraine began.
In 2021, Russia was the world’s top exporter of nitrogen fertilizers and the second-largest supplier of both potassic and phosphorous fertilizers, according to the
U.N. Food and Agriculture
Organization.
Russia and Belarus had provided about 40% of the world’s exports of potash. Russia also exported 11% of the world’s urea, and 48% of the ammonium nitrate. Russia and Ukraine together export 28% of fertilizers made from nitrogen and phosphorous, as well as potassium according to Morgan Stanley.
ATLANTIS - MEDITERRANEAN SEA ATLIT-YAM - ISRAEL PAVLOPETRI
- GREECE RUNGHOLT
- DENMARK YONAGUNI JIMA - JAPAN
Map of the Caribbean Sea, showing the Greater, Lesser, and Leeward Antilles, the Leeward and Windward Islands.
ISLAND NATIONS UNDER THREAT OF SINKING
Cabo Verde, Republic of Marshall Islands, Republic of the Micronesia, Federated States of
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