BIOSCIENCES BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASIA, December 2013. Vol. 10(2), 653-658 * To whom all correspondence should be addressed. Tel.: +6019-9146575; Fax: +609-6683193 Potential of Macro Algae for Biomass Energy Source and Green House Gas Emission Carbon Capture A.S.A. Kader 1 , O.Sulaiman Olanrewaju 2 and WN. Wan Shamsuri 3 1,2 Marine Technology Center, University Technology Malaysia, Skudai, UTM, Skudai, 81310 Johor, Malaysia. 3 Faculty of Science, Department of Physics, University Technology Malaysia, Skudai, UTM Skudai, 81310 Johor, Malaysia DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/bbra/1177 (Received: 15 August 2013; accepted: 10 October 2013) Marine Algae have thousands species, that have various application of today’s needy biotechnology material, it has a big potential to solve energy problem. Marine algae have the largest carbon energy content compare to other biomass energy sources. Marine algae can capture large amount of CO 2 , another big potential to solve climate change problems. Various species of marine algae also act as filters to clean the ocean. Macro-algae plantation system has not been tried in many places due to lack of offshore technology usage in aquaculture industry. In order to maintain the competitiveness in macro-algae production in global market, novel cultivation system that will provide large scale production currently need to be developed and the development include conceptual design work already performed on the study is integrated integration into industrial design and testing required for full commercialization. Biological work for ocean water test to determine algae species for Difference Ocean areas is conducted in conjunction with the development of the aquaculture technology platform require for the ocean plantation. This paper describes the biological work on the system. Key words: Macro algae, Biomass, Energy, Seaweed. Background Biomass production from macro algae has been viewed as important mainly because of the need for pollution abatement. Environmental considerations will increasingly determine product and process acceptability and drive the next generation of economic opportunity. Bomass represent renewable energy resource that is available where the climatic conditions are favorable for plant growth and production. Biomass is considered as an attractive alternative to fossil fuels as a source of energy. Macroalgae found application for use as food for production of useful compounds, as bio filters to remove nutrients and other pollutant from wastewaters, to maintain water quality, as indicators of environmental change, in space technology, and as laboratory research systems. Algae can be used for biodiesel and biobutanol. It’s used can mitigate the use of sizable amounts of vegetable oil, compared terrestrial crops grown for same purpose. It also can be grown to produce hydrogen that is sometime switch from the production of oxygen to the production of hydrogen. Marine macro algae are receiving increasing attention as an attractive renewable source for producing fuels and chemicals. Macro algae species have high caloric energy value compare to other biomass sources. Biomass can also use for carbon capture and subsequencial mitigate of the global warming by capturing the carbon dioxide from the large point sources such as fossil fuel power plants and storing it instead of releasing it into atmosphere.