[dynachrome]

Could grow twice as mucch near Fukushima.

[NorthMountain]

nuclear winter

This again???

Global Cooling!!! No! It's Global Warming!!!!

Climate Change!!!!

Nuclear Winter!!!!

Oh NOOOOOOOOoooooooooooo!!!!

When in danger or in doubt,
Run in circles, scream and shout!

[know.your.why]

GET YOURS NOW!!!

[gundog]

My mom used to make pickles out of it. I may have a 50 year old jar of them. Not a fan.

[V_TWIN]

Well, it DOES look delish!

[married21]

A diet of sushi wrappers. Yum.

[Carl Vehse]

From the article, the scientists include "Dr. Jehn, the data science lead for the Colorado-based Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED), collaborated with Louisiana State University's Department of Ocean and Coastal Science, one German astrophysicist, and scientists from both Texas and the Philippines on the project."

And just who do these scientists think will be doing the commercial kelp harvesting, processing, and kelp food distribution following a nuclear war? Also who will build the sailboats (and approve the licenses) required to harvest the kelp with the fuel industry essentially destroyed?

[mass55th]

Kelp has been a food, and medicine source for a millennia. It has also been used in the production of fishing line, and canoes. Scientists are also now looking at its potential as a biofuel.

[dfwgator]

[Openurmind]

Kelp is very high in Potassium iodide. It negates the effect of radiation on the thyroid. It is what they give folks to prevent or help with radiation poisoning.

[alloysteel]

Wouldn’t a diet high in kelp lead to hyperthyroidism? This is a condition caused by too much iodine in the diet, and kelp is touted as the best way to obtain that iodine. But too much of anything is just as bad as too little of that which is absolutely required.

There are no final one-word answers for anything.

[LeonardFMason]

Soylent Green

[thinden]

wouldn’t this envirocide the fish?

[Liaison]

Sorry but I had to. Soylent Green is Human!!

[Jonty30]

Kelp and seaweed are plants, so there should be no qualms from anybody to eat them.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"Gotta get to the kelp farm. Need kelp! Must have kelp."

Wait a sec! I thought BUGS were going to save us. Bugs will survive anything.

[PGR88]

Bugs and kelp

will we at least be allowed ketchup?

[GreenHornet]

Can I get fries with that?

[rfp1234]

Soylent Brown?

[gitmo]

Kelp isn’t a newly discovered food source. I’ve eaten store-bought kelp several times. It’s filling, but it tastes terrible.

[nuke_road_warrior]

After a nuclear war, who thinks the infrastructure or the trained personnel needed to harvest kelp and turn it into food would survive? If we are really, really lucky, the surviving technology will be mid eighteenth century. If not so lucky, sixth century post roman Europe. If really unlucky, the relative handful of survivors will be huddling in caves trying to survive the next ice age.