Cyanocapture form the part of the twenty-three winning teams that received $250,000 funds from the $5M grants make available by the philanthropy foundation of high tech billionaire, Elon Musk. One hundred and ninety-five 195 institutions of learning from ten (10) countries had participated in the Carbon Removal Students' Competition.
XPrize which have been around since 1994 launched the award programme primarily to fund concepts which are still in early stage from the next generation of carbon removal innovators and thereby taken them to next level.
As a matter of protocol the competing students team must submit their concepts for an award in one of two categories: Carbon Dioxide Removal Demonstrations or Measurement, Reporting, and Verification Technologies.
The funds awarded the winning teams are use to perfect their innovation prototypes for the permanent removal of CO2 from the atmosphere while preparing to compete in subsequent rounds of XPrize competition
CyanoCapture is a University of Oxford bases award-winning startup founded in Jan 2021. It area of service revolve around carbon capturing. It provides point-source carbon capture to power stations, cement factories and other emission sites.
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