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How to Compete for Elon Musk's $100 Million Xprize to Fight Climate Change Learn the details of Elon Musk and Xprize's competition aimed at pulling carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

By Dan Bova

Elon Musk has funded Xprize's $100 million prize pool for a competition that seeks solutions that can "pull carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere or oceans and lock it away permanently in an environmentally benign way."

Related: 61 Books Elon Musk Thinks You Should Read

Xprize will award up to 15 finalists $1 million each, and the three top finishers will win $10, $20 and $50 million respectively. Twenty-five $250,000 scholarships will also be up for grabs for student team entrants.

To qualify, solutions must be able to extract 1 ton of CO2 per day, and display viability to scale.

Details of the competition can be found here.
Dan Bova

Entrepreneur Staff

VP of Special Projects

Dan Bova is the VP of Special Projects at Entrepreneur.com. He previously worked at Jimmy Kimmel Live, Maxim, and Spy magazine. His latest books for kids include This Day in History, Car and Driver's Trivia Zone, Road & Track Crew's Big & Fast Cars, The Big Little Book of Awesome Stuff, and Wendell the Werewolf. 

Read his humor column This Should Be Fun if you want to feel better about yourself.

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