Virgin Group chairman and British tycoon, Sir Richard Branson announced today a $25 million prize for a way to extract a billion tons or more of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year.
Before you rush to submit your "We should use less fossil fuels" entry, remember, this contest is to REMOVE 1,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere EACH YEAR!
Keep in mind who will judge your proposal:
-Richard Branson (that's fair)
-Al Gore (OK, he's an inconvenient participant)
-James Hansen (NASA climate scientist, which is fine)
-James Lovelock (devised the Gaia theory of Earth's ecosystems which proposes that the living matter of Earth functions like a single organism and, thus, self-regulates climate in order for life to persist). He's in.
-Sir Crispin Tickell (British environmentalist known for his book Climatic Change and World Affairs. The first sentence of the Introduction states Climate is a condition of life. (A shoe in!)
and...
-Tim Flannery, Australian paleontologist (Well, you gotta have someone from down under, I guess. He's pretty good.)
To win, you will have to come up with a way of removing one billion tons of carbon gases a year from the atmosphere for 10 years. That's 10,000,000,000 tons of carbon gases in total.
If you do, you get, $5 million paid at the start and the remaining $20 million at the end.
Ready? Set! Go!
My entry:
The world's largest vacuum cleaner!
The Yeetle Box
The Yeetle Box
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