Hawaiian company edging closer to growing seawood for food and biofuel

In Hawaii, local press reports that Kampachi Farms is seeking a $1 million grant from the Department of Energy and federal permission to farm four species of edible limu seaweed more than a mile off Kaiwi Point near Kailua on Hawaii Island with the intention of eventually getting to commercial scale and using the crop for electricity production. It already undertook a one-year lab-scale trial with seven limu varieties thanks to a $500,000 DOE grant.