Method for cultured sea algae

• US 8,126,780 B2
• Filed: 12/24/2007
• Issued: 02/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hiroshi Horibata, Katsumi Iwai
• Original Assignee: Hiroshi Horibata, Katsumi Iwai
• Inventors: Iwai, Katsumi, Horibata, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Allen, Will
• Application Number:
  US12/005,012
• Publication Number:
  US 20080228542A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,527 Days
• Field of Search: 705 261- 272, 705/37, 705/308, 47/14, 588/249, 588/259
• US Class Current: 705/26.1
• CPC Class Codes: A01G 33/00 Cultivation of seaweed or algae
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/30 Administration of product recycling or disposal
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0607 Regulated
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0609 Buyer or seller confidence or verification
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/04 Trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency exchange
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 40/80 in fisheries management
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 60/20 Reduction of greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions in agriculture, e.g. CO2
• CPC Class Codes: Y02W 90/00 Enabling technologies or technologies with a potential or indirect contribution to greenhouse gas [GHG] emissions mitigation

Abstract

A method and apparatus for utilizing, processing, distributing and an accompanying business model for sea algae, particularly forced cultured kombu, to prevent the expansion of global warming, by encouraging a re-purchase of the cultured sea algae, by paying the purchaser back, in a constant rate, a part of the profit from the sales of a CO2 omission right, which right depends upon the CO2 absorption and fixation ability.

Claims

1. A method for cultured algae comprising:

storing, in a computer data base, records of culturing conditions, yield, and carbon fixation volumes for a sea algae culturing facility of a predetermined scale in a specific sea area;

obtaining, via a remote sensing device configured to perform at least one of space satellite remote sensing, under water remote sensing, and direct artificial sensing, data pertaining to actual culturing conditions, yield, and carbon fixation volumes associated with the sea algae culturing facility;

storing, in a computer data base, the data obtained pertaining to the actual culturing conditions, yield, and carbon fixation volumes;

comparing the obtained data pertaining to the actual culturing conditions, yield, and carbon fixation volumes to the stored records of culturing conditions, yield and carbon fixation volumes of the sea algae culturing facility;

computing a weight of cultured sea algae and a carbon fixation quantity from the obtained data and certifying the computed carbon fixation quantity in the presence of a third party;

calculating a greenhouse gas omission right based on the certified carbon fixation quantity and the computed weight of the cultured sea algae;

selling the greenhouse gas omission right through a global warming gas omission right trading mechanism;

processing at least a portion of the cultured sea algae to produce a product, the product including at least one of a food article, an industrial article, and an agriculture-forestry-marine article; and

distributing, via a market, the product produced from processing at least a portion of the cultured sea algae.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the cultured sea algae is brown algae or green algae or red algae or the kombu.

3. The method according to claim 2 wherein the multiple dimensional remote sensing systems is respectively a system corresponding to a provision of ISO 14604.

4. The method according to claim 2 wherein a constant rate of money is paid back to a purchaser of the cultured sea algae.

5. The method according to claim 1 wherein the multiple dimensional remote sensing systems is respectively a system corresponding to a provision of ISO 14064.

6. The method according to claim 5 wherein a constant rate of money is paid back to a purchaser of the cultured sea algae.

7. The method according to claim 6 wherein the sea algae culturing facility provides at least one kind of an under water detector or sensor or an electric transmitter.

8. The method according to claim 1 wherein a constant rate of money is paid back to a purchaser of the cultured sea algae.

9. The method according to claim 1 wherein the method includes the sales of sea algae culturing technologies.

10. The method according to claim 1 wherein a product from the sea algae includes methane gas or ethyl alcohol and the greenhouse gas omission right is sold through a communication circuit or an ordinary trading center.

11. The method according to claim 1 wherein the sea algae culturing facility is a large bay mooring type or a large offing and up and down type facility.

12. The method according to claim 11 wherein the sea algae culturing facility provides a mechanism configured for scattering iron slag and dissolving out fertilizer into the under sea to grow the culturing sea algae.

13. The method according to claim 1 wherein the sea algae culturing facility provides at least one kind of an under water detector or sensor or an electric transmitter.

14. The method according to claim 13 wherein the sea algae culturing facility provides a mechanism configured for scattering iron slag and dissolving out fertilizer into the under sea to grow the culturing sea algae.

15. The method according to claim 1 wherein the sea algae culturing facility provides a mechanism configured for scattering iron slag and dissolving out fertilizer into the under sea to grow the culturing sea algae.

16. The method according to claim 15 wherein the mechanism configured for scattering the iron slag and dissolving out fertilizer is a float which receives the slag and fertilizer in a porous under half portion of the float or a bag of mesh or cloth hung down on a floating trunk rope of the sea algae culturing facility.

17. The method according to claim 1 wherein a desired sea algae is cultivated by one nation in a proper sea area for cultivation which is credited from other nation, under an international comprehensive credit agreement according to Kyoto Protocol, to obtain a mutual profit from the cultured sea algae respectively.

18. The method according to claim 17 wherein the one nation credited a proper sea zone to cultivate a desired object from another marine nation, is an inland nation.

19. A method for cultured sea algae comprising:

storing in a computer database first records of culturing conditions, yield and carbon fixation volumes for a sea algae culturing facility of a predetermined scale in a specific sea area;

performing, by a remote sensing device, a multidimensional inspection of the sea algae facility to obtain actual data, the actual data including culturing conditions, yield and carbon fixation volumes;

storing in the computer data base the obtained actual data;

comparing the first records and the obtained actual data;

computing a weight of cultured sea algae and a carbon fixation quantity;

certifying the computed weight and the carbon fixation quantity in the presence of a third party;

selling a greenhouse gas omission right through a greenhouse gas omission right trading market, the greenhouse gas omission right based on the certified carbon fixation quantity and the computed weight;

processing at least a portion of the cultured sea algae to produce at least one product;

distributing, via a market, the at least one product produced from processing at least a portion of the cultured sea algae.

20. The method according to claim 19 wherein the cultured sea algae is brown algae or green algae or red algae.

21. The method according to claim 20 wherein the cultured sea algae is kombu.

22. The method according to claim 19 wherein the remote sensing device utilizes at least one of space satellite remote sensing, under water remote sensing, or direct artificial sensing.

23. The method according to claim 22 wherein the multidimensional inspection employs a system corresponding to a provision of ISO 14604.