If you check the journalistic notes of 2008, 2018 or 2024 you will find the same warnings: increasing amounts accumulated in the beaches, damage to ecosystems, insect pests, anoxia, bad smells, health effects and a tremendous impact on the economy of the entire region for 46 business activities.
Son 38 million tons Those estimated for this Season 2025 With a Annual cost estimated to collect it, dispose and discard it from 1 million dollars per kilometer And that other meteorological phenomena have not been felt, but imagine the cost of a convergence of effects that could mean a couple of tropical storms or hurricanes and this sargassic invasion.
The factors that stimulate the exponential proliferation of the algae will not remedy soon, quite the opposite. These conditions will worsen: climate change, deforestation, alterations of marine currents, excess nutrients and chemicals thrown into the sea.
The sargasso develops a complete cycle of damage since its origin, its journey in the oceans, upon its arrival on the beaches and when it ends up decomposing.
The ecosystem of the entire region is in serious problems, this macroalga prevents photosynthesis, limits the availability of oxygen and weakens the formation of pastures, corals and mangroves. All aquatic species suffer in some way the effects of these huge spots – visible from space – extending from Africa to the east coast of the United States.
A long list of collateral effects that continues to grow also implies from burdensome and excessive expenses for cleaning, cancellations, low economic activity, closed businesses, affected tour operators and a decrease in local income.
When decomposing on the beaches or the sea emits dangerous gases such as methane, ammonia, sulfide acid, CO2 that not only mean bad odors but of greenhouse effect and are the origin of various chronic diseases.
Tourists, workers and the general population are exposed to that visual, olfactory, aerial contamination and also impacts on dumps and aquifer mantles, when accumulating on the earth and the subsoil.
Logistically, having the sargassum implies stirring tons of wet algae with a weight, mass and volume of which almost the 80% is salt water and 30% beach sand (which also erodes them). Its chemical and organic composition requires exposing itself to heavy metals, hazardous substances, bacteria, viruses and sanitary discharges that are bioaccumula in the algae.
1) An integral solution must then start from its disposal and intersection at the ocean or in the containment barriers, using floating units or barges that collect it and can transform it without the need to transfer it to the ground.
2) On the beaches, autonomous mobile units that transform it into the site can be parked.
3) The tons of accumulated waste could be industrialized and remedied ecologically with equipment in existing string.
4) The available technology is effective when operating in real time, it is scalable, adaptable, versatile, modular.
5) Use cutting -assisted tip systems that explode the algae at the speed of sound, by applying forces that neutralize, dehydrate, crush, pulverize and inoculate the algae eliminating pollutants and microorganisms.
6) The excess of extracted water is expelled as a steam, which reduces the material to be transported and generates huge savings in work, transfers and disposal.
7) The sargassum is reduced to a finely ground powder without residual moisture, decontaminated, without bad odors, inert and ready to be used for bio-fertilizers, clean, plastics and/or bio coal energies.
8) Due to the extreme conditions in which it operates, this technology maintains its efficiency in humidity conditions and excessive heat, is very resistant to corrosion and easy to operate.
9) To reduce its coal footprint, it has solar energy alternatives and automation processes.
10) Other benefits of this solution with the best long -range, sustainable and profitable rate is that it produces zero waste and can be integrated into a circular economy scheme.
Transiting the same route is obsolete, sterile. Press holders and social networks will be the same in 2030; Increases the presale, the sargassum triples, thousands of tons of accumulated algae, economic effects and expenses are very careful. The sargass will continue to win the battle.
Marking the difference is to do things differently, evolutionary, criticism, with vision towards the future, if the recurrence and aggravation of the problem of the sargasso are a statement that what is currently done is not working and if there are also alert signs that it will be even more serious, the attitude and approach to it must be changed.
This is an exercise of leadership, thinking outside the box, altering the meaning of trends, innovating, undertaking consensus, adding efforts, unity before an extraordinary adversary.
Sargasso is a living organism that learns and adapts, current generations carry information that has made them more resistant, fibrous, expansive and optimal conditions for expansion will be even more conducive to the algae.
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