Carbon to Cupcake: Xprize for using Carbon Dioxide

Baking soda, Lego figures, cement – what do they have in common? They can all be produced using carbon dioxide as a raw material.

Xprize, a US based leading organisation in large scale innovation competitions, seeks for the brightest minds around the world to hand in proposals for CO₂ re-use.  The prize will incentivize the development of new and emerging CO₂ conversion technologies, accelerating them from laboratory testing to demonstration under real world conditions. The prize – running 4 and a half years –  will help identify the most promising pathways for CO₂ conversion and prove they can be deployed at power plants and other industrial facilities. Ultimately, the impact of the prize will go far beyond the critical demonstration of innovative technologies, by inspiring transformation, enabling new markets, and empowering people to be a part of the solution to one of our world’s grandest challenges – climate change.

Broad product range possible

 “The XPRIZE Foundation and EnCO₂re share the goal of accelerating CO₂ re-use commercialization. This nascent technology has the potential for environmental and economic benefits that could be an important part of the global transformation towards sustainability. We welcome the Foundation’s commitment and look forward to the results of the competition,” says Ted Grozier, Programme Manager of EnCO₂re, Climate-KIC’s flagship innovation programme on enabling CO₂ re-use.

 

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