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8. Is the Future of Farming in the Ocean?

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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Kelp Grows So Fast, It's Not Viable

Kelp has to be processed and stabilized within about eight to 12 hours, or the salls breakdown. Kelp grows so fast and in such high volume, you're looking at about ten tons per acre. The workers on the farm like all this is simply. You just hang all the kelp. And it turns out kelp looks like tobacco, it acts like it.

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