Controller for seaweed farm
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11877549B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-23

    申请号:US17532090

    申请日:2021-11-22

    申请人: X Development LLC

    摘要: Methods and systems, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for controlling a system for growing seaweed are described. Some implementations of a method include forming a substrate loop inoculated with seaweed spores; arranging the substrate loop about a pulley; submerging the substrate loop to grow the seaweed; determining, using a seaweed farm controller, that the seaweed has grown to a pre-determined size; and based on the determination that the seaweed has grown to a pre-determined size: providing instructions to the pulley to feed a section of the substrate loop to a harvesting unit; providing instructions to the harvesting unit to separate the seaweed attached to the section of the substrate loop; providing instructions to a cleaning unit to clean the section of the substrate loop that is freed from seaweed; and providing instructions to a seeding unit to inoculate the cleaned section of substrate loop with seaweed spores.

    SMART RAFT SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MONITORING AND IMPROVING WATER QUALITY TO MITIGATE ALGAL BLOOMS

    公开(公告)号:US20230404002A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-21

    申请号:US18238695

    申请日:2023-08-28

    IPC分类号: A01G33/00 G01N33/18

    CPC分类号: A01G33/00 G01N33/18

    摘要: A system, method and computer program product for monitoring and improving water quality to mitigate eutrophication or harmful algal blooms using smart rafts, including a raft made from a mycomaterial; one or more tube-shaped pods formed in the raft and configured to hold seed or media and configured with a root channel at the bottom of the pods extending through a bottom of the raft; and a sensor holder formed in the raft and configured to hold a water quality sensor accessing a water channel extending through a bottom of the raft. Remedial plants are grown in the tube-shaped pods with roots of the remedial plants passing through the water channel into water underneath the raft.