North Korea may be using algae to work around international sanctions

[DemolitionMan]

Nyshka Chandran   

One of the world's most secretive states is going green — for national security reasons.

Pyongyang may be interested in developing algae as "a strategic resource," according to a recent note on 38 North, a website focused on North Korea that's part of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/23/how-algae-can-help-north-korea-with-sanctions.html

[thackney]

...Using data from nine North Korean facilities, the note estimated that 2,851 tons of algae biomass could be produced each year. That contains approximately 1,425.5 tons of nutritional mass and could be converted to the equivalent of 4,075.6 barrels of oil.

"If there were just 100 times more acreage in production and being utilized, the oil yield could be 6.5 percent of North Korea's 2014 estimated requirements for their entire economy," the note said....

So they might be producing 0.065% of their needs from Algae?  Wow, game changer...

[edpc]

Because Kim is pond scum?