"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.