{"id":1875579,"date":"2023-03-13T12:28:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T16:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massive-seaweed-blob-bigger-than-u-s-targets-florida\/"},"modified":"2023-03-13T12:31:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T16:31:58","slug":"massive-seaweed-blob-bigger-than-u-s-targets-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massive-seaweed-blob-bigger-than-u-s-targets-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Seaweed Blob Bigger Than U.S. Targets Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmassive-seaweed-blob-bigger-than-u-s-targets-florida%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1875579&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A 5,000-mile-wide bunch of seaweed, roughly twice the width of the USA, is bearing down on the southwest coast of Florida, the place residents could undergo respiratory issues consequently.<\/p>\n<p>An enormous swath of seaweed, also called sargassum, wrought havoc with the water desalination plant on St. Croix within the Virgin Islands final summer time. Governor Albert Bryan Jr. issued an government order declaring a state of emergency due to the water scarcity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if it\u2019s just out in coastal waters, it can block intake valves for things like power plants or desalination plants, marinas can get completely inundated and boats can\u2019t navigate through,\u201d Brian Barnes, a professor on the College of South Florida\u2019s School of Marine Science stated of the looming downside, which at the moment is drifting between the Atlantic coast of Africa and the Gulf of Mexico. \u201cIt can really threaten critical infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing in the satellite imagery does not bode well for a clean beach year,\u201d Brian LaPointe, analysis professor at Florida Atlantic College\u2019s Harbor Department Oceanographic Institute, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/science\/environment\/sargassum-seaweed-threatens-beaches-florida-mexico-rcna73862\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated<\/a>, including, \u201cFollowing the big 2018 blooms, doctors in Martinique and Guadeloupe reported thousands of people going to clinics with breathing complications from the air that was coming off these rotting piles of sargassum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore 2011, it was there but we couldn\u2019t observe it with satellites because it wasn\u2019t dense enough,\u201d Barnes commented. \u201cSince then, it has just exploded and we now see these huge aggregations. \u2026 Historically, as far back as we have records, sargassum has been a part of the ecosystem, but the scale now is just so much bigger. What we would have thought was a major bloom five years ago is no longer even a blip.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However there could also be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrel.gov\/news\/program\/2022\/the-caribbean-is-swimming-in-seaweed-scientists-aim-to-turn-it-into-jet-fuel-and-batteries.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">silver lining<\/a> for the seaweed cloud: the U.S. Division of Power Bioenergy Applied sciences Workplace is inspecting the thought of mixing wooden waste with seaweed to make easy sugars microbes that might develop into biofuels. Acids or warmth could possibly be used to deal with algae and wooden waste after which flip the consequence into ethanol and probably be used for sustainable aviation gas that will produce 90% much less greenhouse gasoline emissions than typical jet gas. The leftover solids could be used for batteries in electrical automobiles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe envision a sort of a dilute acid pretreatment as our baseline to make the sugars more accessible,\u201d Nationwide Renewable Power Laboratory (NREL) researcher Jacob Kruger stated. \u201cWe might have to look at other chemical or mechanical treatments as well, and then plan to use enzymatic hydrolysis to render the sugars fermentable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>&#8220;From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/massive-seaweed-blob-bigger-than-u-s-targets-florida\">Large Seaweed Blob Greater Than U.S. Targets Florida<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:11px\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 5,000-mile-wide bunch of seaweed, roughly twice the width of the United States, is bearing down on the southwest coast of Florida, where residents may suffer respiratory problems as a result. 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