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    Sea6 Energy: An ocean farming startup that wants to replace fossil fuel with biofuels

    Ocean farming, a way of trapping most of the Sun’s energy that falls on oceans, can help generate large amounts of biomass to make biofuel sustainably without taking out the biomass used for food and feed purposes (Credit: Sea6 Energy)

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    Sea6 Energy has developed a novel extract from seaweed that can be used for agriculture and is exporting it all over the world.

    Bengaluru-based startup Sea6 Energy, which has raised more than $22 million so far, aims to produce enough biomass to substitute for India’s entire oil imports, according to its cofounder.If the ocean farming startup can grow enough seaweed around India’s coastline to make the required biomass, it can achieve the goal and rid the country of its significant dependence on crude oil imports.India’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) - an area beyond and
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