Elon Musk is shelling out a hundred millions dollars to anyone who can come up with a way of removing CO2 from our atmosphere. Time to win that sweet, sweet carbon capture money.

Here’s that very cool carbon dioxide removal and storage proposal we mentioned in the video: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021...
#carboncapture #co2 #climatesolutions

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