00:00This salad is helping cool the planet.
00:02It's made of kelp from an underwater forest like this that captures massive amounts of carbon dioxide.
00:09A Namibian startup has been growing these seaweeds.
00:12Seedlings are hatched in this lab before they are wrapped around growing structures in an underwater farm.
00:18The kelp loves the cold and nutrient-rich water from the southern Atlantic.
00:23They grow fast.
00:23This canopy is formed every three months and die first to harvest 12 tons each day.
00:30Then it's processed into a seaweed extract to boost crop use in farms.
00:34When it dies, the carbon captured through photosynthesis in its structures is buried in marine sediment.
00:41The firm said the kelp forests can sequester a megaton of carbon dioxide each year.
00:47That's the emission of 200,000 cars on average.
00:50It's just an estimate for now, but it kelps.
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