38% of that coast is less than 20 meters deep. 20 acres of that generates algae cash flow of $400,000/yr. Anchor costs and platform costs are significant, but not out of the world. Dropping 70 foot steel legs is really not hard.
The floating bag technology, it will drive people into the coast. Alfalfa farmers, offshore oil workers, and fisherman become stationary algae farmers. The bag industry starts basic and durable, one state single flow floating bag systems. But the complexity of bags increases the complexity of products and complexity of strains. Network effects cause accelerating growth.
Instead of the login cabin, it will be the sea platform, a small family size platform with 70 foot legs. A mass migration of a hundreds thousand family for a season home on the sea, farming 20 - 2000 acres per farm. Little Aquavilles sprouting up along out southern coasts.
The Marginal Homestead Acreage
Call it 20 acres, and it support two full time workers. The unit also generate $100,000/yr in equipment and services demand. These are all local, labor intensive jobs. One to two million algae indusiry jobs along the southern coast.
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