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$20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE

Unread postby Keith_McClary » Thu 01 Oct 2015, 01:39:22

I posted this in the "CO2 (non-obsessing) Thread" but maybe it warrants its own thread. COSIA = "Canada's Oil Sands Innovation Alliance"
The $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE will challenge the world to reimagine what we can do with CO2 emissions by incentivizing and accelerating the development of technologies that convert CO2 into valuable products. These technologies have the potential to transform how the world approaches CO2 mitigation, and reduce the cost of managing CO2.

Competition Overview

The competition will have two tracks – one focused on testing technologies at a coal power plant and one focused on testing technologies at a natural gas power plant. Each track will operate as a separate competition on the same timeline.

Teams will compete in three rounds for a total prize purse of $20 million:

Round 1: Teams will choose a track and submit technical and business information about their technology, process, potential products, and how they plan to achieve the technical requirements and goals of the competition. Teams will be assessed and ranked based on these submissions. In each track, up to 15 teams will move onto Round 2.
Round 2: Teams will demonstrate technologies in a controlled environment (such as a laboratory), using a simulated power plant flue gas stream. Teams must meet minimum requirements and will be scored on how much CO2 they convert and the net value of their products. In each track, up to 5 teams will move onto Round 3 and share a $2.5 million milestone purse.
Round 3: Teams will demonstrate technologies under real world conditions, at a larger scale. Teams will have access to two test centers adjacent to existing power plants, and will prove their technologies using actual power plant flue gas. Teams must meet minimum requirements and will be scored on how much CO2 they convert and the net value of their products. In each track, the winner will be awarded a $7.5 million grand prize.
Impact

The Carbon XPRIZE seeks to inspire the brightest minds around the world to tackle a significant challenge and help solve climate change.
http://carbon.xprize.org/about/overview

What can you do with CO2 without using energy? Other than solar (feeding CO2 to trees or algae), what energy source is there?

On the X-Prize homepage you can vote:

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They should add the Philosopher's Stone.
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Also:
30-SEP-2015
Bold research into recycling CO2
CADIAC is where scientists at Aarhus University, MIT, University of Michigan, University of Rostock, and University of Paris VII join forces in an endeavor to turn CO2 into a sustainable resource
The scientific aims are bold, but the gains can be enormous. The new CADIAC research centre at Aarhus University will be the most ambitious venture in the world to date to find the best methods to convert CO2 into medicine, plastic and useful chemicals. Even on Mars.

CO2, carbon dioxide, carbonic acid gas. Waste product, pollution, greenhouse gas. The demon goes by many names.

However, it might also deserve a positive nickname - a sustainable resource. But this means that it has to work - or rather, that we find better ways to get it to work - and generally speaking, CO2 molecules are not very cooperative.

CO2 molecules are actually very stable, and in normal circumstances, they do not react chemically with other substances. It is therefore necessary to expose the substances to abnormal conditions.

In the course of the last few decades, researchers and companies all over the world have entered into a race to discover or develop catalysts that not only get CO2 to react with other substances and form new materials, but are also safe, stable and cost-effective.

New star team joins the race

A new competitor has now joined in. CADIAC (Carbon Dioxide Activation Centre) is providing an international team of researchers who are some of the world's leading experts in the catalysis and activation of CO2.

Backed by a grant of DKK 60 million from the Danish National Research Foundation, CADIAC will be located at iNANO, Aarhus University, but the new basic research centre will actually carry out its research at many addresses.

This is due to a partnership between researchers at the University of Michigan (USA), the University of Rostock (Germany), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), the University of Paris (France) and Aarhus University (Denmark), the latter of which is represented by the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Engineering.

Two of the partners - Professor Melanie Sanford (University of Michigan) and Professor Matthias Beller (Leibniz Institute for Catalysis) - are among the top one per cent of the most frequently cited researchers in the world.

The director of the new basic research centre is Professor of Chemistry Troels Skrydstrup, who has considerable experience in fields including catalysis, as well as management experience from his time as head of the Department of Chemistry and interim head of iNANO. Aarhus University is also represented by Professor Kim Daasbjerg, who is responsible for a number of ground-breaking results in catalysis and electrochemistry.

As part of their close collaboration, the partners will exchange PhD students, enabling them to move between the different research groups and laboratories, thereby gaining access to the world's most advanced technologies - as well as courses that may not be available in their home countries.

Towering ambitions

The ambitious aim of the research centre is to acquire fundamental new knowledge about the activation of CO2 by carrying out work that cuts across four disciplines - catalysis, materials chemistry, surface chemistry and electrochemistry.

This involves not only developing completely new catalysts and catalysis technologies - one of the aims is also to develop materials that can capture CO2 close to the catalyst, making it unnecessary to transport containers of CO2.

The vision is to make it possible in the future to collect CO2 as a raw material directly from chimneys, exhaust pipes or exhaled breath, immediately converting it to valuable materials such as plastic, medicine or fuel.

If successful, it may even affect future manned missions to Mars. The astronauts will be able to 3D print many of their tools and building materials when they arrive - with plastic derived from Mars' atmosphere, which consists mainly of CO2 - thus saving precious rocket fuel.

It sounds bold - and it certainly is. As Professor Skrydstrup wrote in his application to the research foundation, "The scientific risks are high in the sense that such complex integrated and multifunctional chemical systems have never been made before. But if it succeeds, the gains will be enormous."

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A video presentation of CADIAC is available at: https://youtu.be/QG8cy_0E6bI
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Re: $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE

Unread postby StarvingLion » Thu 01 Oct 2015, 13:30:24

In other words, batteries are useless CRAP.
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Re: $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE

Unread postby Apneaman » Thu 01 Oct 2015, 16:02:10

George Monbiot — Intelligent Life On Earth?

UK environmentalist George Monbiot asked the title question in There may be flowing water on Mars. But is there intelligent life on Earth? (The Guardian, September 29, 2015). The lead is even more revealing.

While we marvel at Nasa’s discoveries, we destroy our irreplaceable natural resources – so we can buy pre-peeled bananas and smartphones for dogs

Smartphones for dogs. Even brief contemplation of this product of "human ingenuity" speaks to Homo sapiens as an evolutionary disaster. Evolution is a "blind watchmaker" according to Richard Dawkins, and thus sometimes wanders into blind alleys. This is clearly one of those times.


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Re: $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE

Unread postby StarvingLion » Fri 02 Oct 2015, 03:16:57

And what does the stupid environmentalist and evolutionist have to offer?

Nothing, of course...like the rest of the useless UK.

The UK is so stupid they don't even know how to tie their own shoes.
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Re: $20M NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE

Unread postby StarvingLion » Fri 02 Oct 2015, 03:25:50

Here is another shit-for-brains from the UK

http://www.softmachines.org/wordpress/?p=1730

This dunce is another eco nut promoting decarbonisation nonsense. Actually he is promoting managerialism and using computers to enslave people with metrics madness.

The UK is a laughing stock of scam artists.
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