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  • Elon Musk is offering a $100 million prize for the best technology to scrub carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

  • The Tessler founder announced the move on Twitter, saying full details would come next week.

  • Capturing planet warming carbon emissions is becoming a critical part of plans to keep climate change in check, but little progress has been made on the technology so far, with efforts focused on cutting emissions.

  • Instead, there's no shortage of ideas on how to capture and store carbon, though in Iceland they've tried taking co two out of the air and turning it into rock stored far below the ground.

  • Swiss scientists have tried storing captured carbon in layers off impermeable clay deep under a mountain in 2019 U.

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  • Hyper giant Industries said it had designed a bio reactor that uses algae to capture and process carbon dioxide over in Norway.

  • They've also tried algae.

  • A start up there has captured CO two to grow the Green Group and turn it into feed for fish farms.

Elon Musk is offering a $100 million prize for the best technology to scrub carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

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