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Re:Elon Musk announces $100M carbon capture prize by westurner on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:44PM (#25866794)
https://www.xprize.org/prizes/carbon :

> The $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE develops breakthrough technologies to convert COâ‚‚ emissions into usable products.

CCS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage

CCU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_utilization

Sequestration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sequestration

Re:Elon Musk announces $100M carbon capture prize by westurner on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:47PM (#25866824)
Hemp!? Is hemp the best answer? Thousands of products and Oxygen can be made from Carbon diOxide, Hemp, water, UV radiation, and soul.
Re:Elon Musk announces $100M carbon capture prize by captnmX on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:21PM (#25866627)
I wonder how much progress would be made on the millennium prize problems if the prize was increased by 1 or 2 orders of magnitude