BOC: patent-protected tech for $8 Trillion/yr food market BlueOcean NutraSciences Inc. (TSXV:BOC) sole focus is commercializing its patent-protected CO 2 gas infusion technology license and US PTO CO 2 foliar spray, patent pending, for accelerating both indoor and outdoor plant growth.
Dissolved natural CO 2 gas in water without bubbles is a new CO 2 delivery method for growers to increase yield via targeted CO 2 irrigation on plant leaves where all CO 2 gas is absorbed. The greenhouse industry has been gassing CO 2 to increase plant yields by an average of 33% (B.A. Kimball, Agronomy Journal, V75, September-October 1983 ) for the past 60 years while foliar spray has been used for the past 50 years. To date, no one has combined CO 2 gassing and water.
Targeting dissolved CO 2 water onto plant leaves versus CO 2 gassing an entire greenhouse to attain a desired CO 2 PPM level could also save 50% of CO 2 gassing costs and improve worker safety.
Addressable markets using dissolved CO 2 irrigation water are as follows:
1. $8 Trillion/y global food market of which $340 Billion/y is from greenhouse produce and
2. $50 Billion+/y by 2022 for legal global cannabis. No other patent has been issued for applying CO 2 to plants via foliar spray irrigation by the US PTO.