engineer for carbon capture breakthrough

Status: Closed
Prize: $108
Entries Received: 9
Winner: Asianexperts

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Contest Brief

$100 is only a placeholder.

I want to compete for Elon Musk's $100 million dollar Carbon Capture competition.
If you can do this let's communicate

What is the $100M XPRIZE Carbon Removal Sponsored by Elon Musk?

We can either wait for climate change to continue to decimate elements of our society, or we can focus aggressively on solutions.

And if we’re going to reach the Paris Agreement goal of limiting the Earth’s temperature rise to no more than 1.5˚ Celsius of pre-industrial levels, we need radical innovations.

Approaches and technologies that simply limit CO2 emissions aren’t enough.

We need big, bold solutions that actually remove CO2 already in the air and oceans. And we need them NOW!

That’s the promise of the $100M Carbon Removal XPRIZE sponsored by my dear friend Elon Musk.

With this 4-year global competition, we are challenging entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists to build and demonstrate carbon removal systems that actually work.

Teams will need to create and demonstrate a solution that pulls CO2 directly from the atmosphere or oceans and locks it away permanently in a way that is environmentally safe and sustainable.

To win the competition, teams must demonstrate a scale model of their solution at a level of carbon removal of 1 ton of CO2 per day, and they must demonstrate to a team of judges that the solution can scale cost-effectively to a gigaton level.

Ultimately, the goal of the $100M Carbon Removal XPRIZE is to inspire technology to achieve the 50 gigaton per year carbon removal target by 2030. This is critical to tackling climate change and restoring the Earth’s carbon balance.

Our hope is that this XPRIZE will activate the public and private sectors to get involved in the same way that the $10M Ansari XPRIZE launched the commercial spaceflight industry.

Want to Get Involved?
We’ll be releasing the full competition guidelines and opening registration on Earth Day, April 22, 2021.

The competition will then last for 4 years through Earth Day 2025.

In the meantime, below are more details on how the Prize will be distributed and a summary of the selection criteria.

Distribution of the $100M Prize Purse

After 18 months, at the discretion of the competition judges, the top 15 teams selected will each receive $1M.

Milestone Awards will kickstart team fundraising for their operating budgets to achieve the full-scale demonstrations required to win the Prize.

In the same timeframe, a total of 25 $200,000 student scholarships will be distributed to student teams competing.

The remaining $80M will be distributed as follows:

Grand Prize Winner (1st Place): $50M
2nd Place: $20M
3rd Place: $10M
How the Winning Teams Will be Selected

Teams can submit entries across natural, engineer and hybrid solutions. Competition judges will evaluate the teams based on 4 basic criteria:

A working carbon removal prototype capable of removing at least 1 ton per day;
The team’s ability to demonstrate to the judges that their solution can economically scale to the gigaton level;
The main metric for this competition is fully considered cost per ton, inclusive of whatever considerations are necessary for environmental benefit, permanence, any value-added products; and,
The final criterion is the length of time that the removed carbon is locked up for. A minimum goal of 100 years is desired.

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Public Clarification Board

Asianexperts
- 3 years ago
please check entry #9
- 3 years ago
chuttifactory
- 3 years ago
Hi CH,
Working...Don't announce the winner before the deadline.
- 3 years ago
Shinamkh
- 3 years ago
Hello
I was searching for PhD Positions in chemical Engineering
I noticed that this year many university professors decided to also work on CO2 Capture.
most of them are trying to develop an electrochemical process for this purpose
- 3 years ago
ohanazmy
- 3 years ago
I hope you increase prize to 1000 $ to be suitable with the XPRIZE budget
- 3 years ago
GrafixImage
- 3 years ago
Dear Contest holder, We have Already been Working on Carbon Capture Project . Pls Feel Free to Message and share your Ideas so that we can Combine together to Win the Competition , Thankyou
- 3 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 3 years ago
  What do you have that could contribute to this project?
  On sk y qe I am thesuccessteam1
  - 3 years ago
2. GrafixImage
  - 3 years ago
  Dear Contest Holder, Pls Direct Message us via chat
  - 3 years ago
ironmaniac
- 3 years ago
Interested.
- 3 years ago
1. Contest Holder
  - 3 years ago
  What do you have that could contribute to this project?
  - 3 years ago
divu999999
- 3 years ago
#3
- 3 years ago