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Happy Shrimp Farm to produce algae
The Happy Shrimp Farm, producer of tropical
shrimps in the
port of
Rotterdam
, The
Netherlands is ready to start producing its own algae, intented for shrimp feed and
other industrial applications.
Happy Shrimp
Farm is establishing the business unit AllComm that will focus on the algae
production. The algae are primarily used for shrimp feed and produced
from waste from the Happy Shrimp Farm
and the E.ON power plant (where the farm gets the waste heat
from).
Weapon against global warming
“But using the algae only for Happy Shrimp is too
limited,” says Gilbert Curtessi, managing director of Happy Shrimp. He explains
that algae are a very interesting type of vegetation. Because they are able to
consume large quantities of CO2, they are a powerful weapon against global
warming.
In the future, CO2
can be isolated from the air and injected in (created) algae ponds to neutralise
them. "Furthermore, algae biomass can be used as a source for bio diesel, food
supplements, natural colorants, cosmetics and even pharmaceutical applications",
Curtessi continues. In addition, algae are about ten times more effective as a
bio-diesel producer then other energy crops. That is of particular interest now
that world supplies of feed and food crops are becoming more
limited.
Related website:
Happy Shrimp Farm
Related folder:
Dossier AllAbout Aquafeed
Editor AllAboutFeed
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