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Jul 19, 2022

Students get $5 million from Elon Musk for carbon-removal ideas

Posted by in categories: climatology, Elon Musk, sustainability

An XPrize competition funded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk just awarded teams of students $5 million to develop their ideas for carbon removal systems — and it still has another $95 million to give away.

The challenge: Between our cars, factories, and everything else, humans are pumping about 43 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year.

To combat climate change, we not only need to cut that figure way down, we also need to capture and store a lot of the CO2 that’s already out there.

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