$25m race to CO2 extraction
Friday, April 11th, 2008
The biggest prize in history is now waiting for an inventor.
A prize of $25 million for anyone who can come up with a system for removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere was launched on Friday 8/2/08, by Richard Branson.
The head of Virgin Group said at the launch in London, UK, that the prize was not for removing emissions from power plants before they reach the atmosphere and storing them deep underground - an existing technology known as carbon capture and sequestration.
Instead, the brief is to devise a system to remove a “significant amount” of greenhouse gases [ ] from the atmosphere…
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