Beneath an odd pink-purple glow, illuminated panels buzz and cylindrical columns of water bubble away as a futuristic crop of microalgae grows.
It’s proper right here that Iceland’s Vaxa Utilized sciences has developed a system that harnesses vitality and completely different sources from the shut by vitality plant to cultivate these tiny aquatic organisms.
“It’s a model new mind-set about meals manufacturing,” says frequent supervisor Kristinn Haflidason as he affords me a tour of the space-age facility.
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About 35 minutes from the capital Reykjavik, the Vaxa web site produces the microalgae Nannochloropsis, every as meals for people, and for feed in fish and shrimp farming.
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“The algae is consuming CO2, or turning the CO2 into biomass,” explains Mr Haflidason. “It’s carbon unfavorable.”
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Vaxa’s plant has a novel situation.
It’s the one place the place algae cultivation is built-in with a geothermal vitality station, which offers clear electrical vitality, delivers chilly water for cultivation, scorching water for heating, and even pipes all through its CO2 emissions.
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