“If we can park a kayak in a patch of seaweed… we could do that with floating wind turbines.”
In this episode of Profit Meets Purpose, we dive deep, literally and figuratively, into a game-changing idea from Harland Evans, founder of Nature Based Limited.
Nature Based Limited aims to address the high cost and vulnerability of floating wind turbines, which are expensive to maintain and often break due to constant ocean movement, by using kelp as a natural stabiliser. Alternative, traditional solutions, rely on heavy engineering or vast amounts of concrete, which are costly, and carbon-intensive.
Kelp, on the other hand, is nature’s own breakwater. It dampens wave energy, captures carbon, boosts biodiversity, and doesn’t interfere with the turbines themselves. We explored how this isn’t just a nature story, it's a finance story too. If nature-based solutions can deliver predictable, infrastructure-style returns, they can unlock serious capital. Evans argues for positioning ecosystems as functioning infrastructure.
Throughout the episode, we discussed the early steps from concept to company: validating the science, winning over skeptical engineers, and building a team with complementary skills, including a co-founder with 15 years of renewable energy experience.
This episode is a blueprint for how bold ideas could reshape not just sustainability but the economics of climate solutions themselves.
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