{"id":142518,"date":"2022-07-19T18:02:36","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T23:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/students-get-5-million-from-elon-musk-for-carbon-removal-ideas"},"modified":"2022-07-19T18:02:36","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T23:02:36","slug":"students-get-5-million-from-elon-musk-for-carbon-removal-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/students-get-5-million-from-elon-musk-for-carbon-removal-ideas","title":{"rendered":"Students get $5 million from Elon Musk for carbon-removal ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UX1DAqxXEI8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An XPrize competition funded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk just awarded teams of students <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xprize.org\/prizes\/elonmusk\/articles\/xprize-and-musk-foundation-name-23-winners-in-five-million-dollar-carbon-removal-student-competition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$5 million<\/a> to develop their ideas for carbon removal systems \u2014 and it still has another $95 million to give away.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> Between our cars, factories, and everything else, humans are pumping about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theworldcounts.com\/challenges\/climate-change\/global-warming\/global-co2-emissions\/story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">43 billion tons<\/a> of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year.<\/p>\n<p>To combat climate change, we not only need to cut that figure <em>way<\/em> down, we also need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/series\/seachange\/carbon-capture-technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">capture<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/environment\/making-seashells-out-of-co2\">store<\/a> a lot of the CO2 that\u2019s already out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An XPrize competition funded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk just awarded teams of students $5 million to develop their ideas for carbon removal systems \u2014 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,2019,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-elon-musk","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142518","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}