Friday, November 12th 2021, 8:56 am
A team of current and former University of Oklahoma Students has won a $250,000 prize in a global green competition.
The award program was funded by Tesla founder Elon Musk with the goal of funding early-stage carbon removal concepts.
The team, called the Bison Underground, developed a blueprint for an invention that would use carbon from the sky and redistribute those nutrients into farmland.
The team includes:
The grant will enable the team to design, build and test its prototype in Oklahoma for the next year in preparation for the main $100 million XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition.
XPRIZE is a four-year global competition that invites teams to create and demonstrate solutions that can pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or oceans.
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