A $100 million carbon-removal competition is announced

Event 3 of 9 in How the Musk Foundation’s grants and carbon-removal prize unfolded

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8 Feb 2021

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A $100 million carbon-removal competition is announced

XPRIZE announced a four-year carbon-removal competition funded by Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation. The announced prize program was not a statement that all prize money had already been paid.

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Carbon removal competition announcementFirst-party publication · XPRIZE

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