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It's not that easy to grow azolla. And what do you want to do with the harvested biomass?
The biomass can be sold as animal feed or biochar.
If it's animal feed, then the absorbed carbon is just going back into the atmosphere when the animal produces waste, dies, or gets eaten. That doesn't remove it from the cycle.
A lot of grown azolla is eaten by organisms in the pond, which can also contaminate the feed. It spoils quickly, so best fed onsite. Biochar requires dehydration, which isn't easy for wet biomass that quickly starts to rot.
Yea it would need to be squeezed and dried for cakes. Thankfully you'd have a bunch of solar electricity to do that.
Dehydration can be done with vacuum, perhaps?