Howard WeissChief Information OfficerThe Seawater Foundation

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“In 1960 the world population passed the three billion mark. In the first sixty years of this century, the world’s population has doubled, and we can look forward to a second doubling before year 2000. This amounts to the addition of almost a whole new United States each third year or a new Soviet Union each fourth year. Most of us can expect to live to face up to this.”

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Seawater Farms Eritrea-A “Created Ecosystem”

Shrimp harvest Seawater Farms Eritrea

Tilapia Fish CagesSeawater Farms Eritrea

Salicornia Fields Seawater Farms Eritrea

Salicornia seed threshed fresh from the field

Inter-cropping of Salicornia and MangrovesSeawater Farms Eritrea

2 year old mangrove treesSeawater Farms Eritrea

Root System from one year old Mangrove treeSeawater Farms Eritrea

Mangrove stems & leavesSeawater Farms Eritrea

Seabirds in estuarySeawater Farms Eritrea

(Bird species increased from 12 to over 200 after development of the farm)

Freshwater lens with seawater lake in backgroundSeawater Farms Eritrea

Goat feed trials using seawater-based feedsSeawater Farms Eritrea

Salt production- the final product in anIntegrated Seawater Farm

“Sustainable development cannot be achieved by

one nation alone….It will require types of

partnership never before imagined in

human history.”

SeawaterPumpingStation Shrimp Macro Algae

(Seaweed)Bivalves

Fin Fish(Tilapia)

Mangroves

SalicorniaProductionWetlands

Micro AlgaeArtemia

Salt

Untreated Seawater

Nutrient Rich (C,, N +) Seawater

Biofuel Products

Other Products

INTEGRATED SEAWATER

AGRICULTURE SYSTEM

WATER & PRODUCT FLOW

Seaforest liquid and solid biofuels

Future liquid biofuels

SeaForest BioDieselmade from Salicornia oil

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Shrimp Farm EffluentBahia Kino, Sonora, Mexico

Inlet to 13 km seawater RiverSeawater Farms Bahia Kino

13 km Seawater RiverSeawater Farms Bahia Kino

Bahia Kino Shrimp Farm

The water pumped from the sea (1,000 cubic meters / sec)for shrimp farming in 100 kilometer of Sonoran Coast is equal to 20% of the current annual Antarctic ice melt 33

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Liquid Biofuel$1000

Solid Biofuel$530

Salicornia Meadow Products Value (per hectare / year)

15 mt Straw 1.2 mt Oil(380 Gallons@ $2.65 /gal)1.8 mt Meal

$540

Total value of $2070 per ha / per year

$1000

$ 540

$ 530

Seed

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“If industry models itself upon thermodynamics, it will extract smaller and smaller amounts of value from a dying world. If it models itself upon life, it will create a sustainable planetary economy. But if it grafts onto the life model the further model of art and poetry, it will begin to achieve miracles.”