Watches, Stories, & Gear: A Taylor Stitch Raffle, Carbon Tech Prizes, & 5711 Farewells
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Elon Musk Offers $100M Prize for Carbon Capture Tech
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Elon Musk announced this week (via Twitter, of course) that he?ll be offering a 100 million dollar prize for the best carbon capture technology. Musk is worth a reported 185 billion dollars, so one might wonder if he?s actually being a bit stingy here, but for now we?ll wait until next week when he says details of his offer will be more fully unveiled. Carbon capture technology refers to tech that snares carbon dioxide from its source before it can contribute to ongoing global warming effects. Developing this technology is part of the ongoing fight against climate change, and is believed to represent an opportunity for good engineering and science to overcome much of the damage we continue to do to the planet. A moonshot-like initiative sponsored by the world?s richest man to save the planet feels like the premise of a science fiction novel, but it?s very much where we?re at, and it ...
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