{"id":121226,"date":"2021-04-04T13:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T20:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/carbon-capture-technology-has-been-around-for-decades-heres-why-it-hasnt-taken-off"},"modified":"2021-04-04T13:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T20:22:17","slug":"carbon-capture-technology-has-been-around-for-decades-heres-why-it-hasnt-taken-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/carbon-capture-technology-has-been-around-for-decades-heres-why-it-hasnt-taken-off","title":{"rendered":"Carbon capture technology has been around for decades \u2014 here\u2019s why it hasn\u2019t taken off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/carbon-capture-technology-has-been-around-for-decades-heres-why-it-hasnt-taken-off.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/elon-musk\/\">Elon Musk<\/a> is going to pay $100 million towards a prize to come up with the best carbon capture technology. (Or so he tweets. Details are scarce so far.) <\/p>\n<p>The maverick tech CEO\u2019s promise is not particularly notable for its generosity. With a net worth of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/billionaires\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">over $200 billion<\/a>, $100 million is 0.05% of Musk\u2019s wealth.<\/p>\n<p>But still, the richest person in the world\u2019s tweet brings attention to an often-overlooked technology that has been around since the 1970s but has mostly been relegated to niche corners of the energy community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk is going to pay $100 million towards a prize to come up with the best carbon capture technology. (Or so he tweets. Details are scarce so far.) The maverick tech CEO\u2019s promise is not particularly notable for its generosity. With a net worth of over $200 billion, $100 million is 0.05% of Musk\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}