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Want to win $20 million? Recycle your carbon

July 1, 2016

"Instead of letting CO2 go up into the atmosphere and cause climate change, could you capture that and use it? Could you turn it into something?" That is the $20 million question according to Paul Bunje, head of energy and environment at XPRIZE Foundation.

The foundation's $20 million NRG Cosia Carbon XPrize aims to incentivize the sequestion and recycling of carbon at scale at coal and natural gas plants.