Global Satria is a young company – founded at around the turn of the present millennium – but founded at a time when Climate Change has already become a reality. As we wish to be an exemplary corporate citizen of today’s borderless world, we are seriously looking into Climate Change mitigation by applying a plan consisting of 2 methodologies – firstly, by the absorption of CO2 and secondly, using tropical oysters to sequester carbon in the form of calcium carbonate. The first technology is already in place. The second is in the planning stage and will be submitted as a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) proposal to see if it can be acceptable within the framework of the Kyoto Protocol so that it can be translated into a Carbon Trading business.
The absorption of CO2 from the atmosphere has, over millions of years, being carried out by green plants. However, as tropical rainforests are being cut down for timber, paper and for new agricultural land, the planet is functioning with less and less of its green-lung capacity. Prawn ponds may be operated in such a way as to promote the growth of high densities of unicellular algae. These also absorb can absorb large quantities of CO2 from the atmosphere. All of Global Satria’s production ponds are operated in this manner as a matter of protocol.
The second stage is the sequestration or locking up of the CO2 in a stable form and the Giant Tropical Oyster is capable of filtering unicellular algae for food and depositing the carbon onto its shell in the form of calcium carbonate. Our newly designed Artificial Reef slabs are economical to manufacture and possesses a heavily indented surface that is perfect for oyster larvae to settle on. We will soon carry out experiments by placing these as spat collectors in nearby rivers where the Giant Tropical Oyster has its natural habitat.
Once the oyster larvae have settled and metamorphosed, these collectors may be placed in the mud-flats fronting our farms where the algae-rich effluent is discharged. As mentioned, this is a very clean effluent with Nitrate and Phosphate values lower than that of Drinking Water Standards. The oysters on these collectors can then filter-feed the algae and sequester the CO2 into solid calcium carbonate.
Global Satria will be providing the University of Cambridge with a site and infrastructure to set up an atmospheric halocarbon monitoring laboratory on one of our farms. We are glad to be playing a role in the battle against Climate Change.
