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Captura Advances to the Top 20 Finalists in XPRIZE Carbon Removal Competition

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水曜日, 5月 8, 2024
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With more than 1,300 teams from 88 countries competing, this cohort of top 20 innovators represent some of the most promising carbon removal solutions on the planet.

Key Points: 
  • With more than 1,300 teams from 88 countries competing, this cohort of top 20 innovators represent some of the most promising carbon removal solutions on the planet.
  • XPRIZE Carbon Removal is a four-year competition to find scalable solutions that can capture CO2 directly from the atmosphere or oceans and sequester it durably and sustainably.
  • These commercial milestones, in conjunction with the recognition from the XPRIZE Carbon Removal judges, positions Captura to become a major player in the carbon removal field as it increases its focus on deploying large-scale, commercial plants in the near future.
  • This achievement also affirms Captura’s dedication to sustainable and responsible deployment – a key criteria for XPRIZE Carbon Removal.

KELP BLUE NAMED AS A FINALIST FOR THE PRESTIGIOUS XPRIZE CARBON REMOVAL COMPETITION

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水曜日, 5月 8, 2024
Carbon, Giant, Textile, Climate change, Atmosphere, Kelp, Ecosystem, Biodiversity, Pesticide, Climate, CDR, Blue, Carbon cycle, Fertilizer, Natural capital, History, Farmer, Environment, Seaweed, XPRIZE, Macrocystis pyrifera, CO2, Social capital, Prize

AMSTERDAM, May 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kelp Blue, an innovative seaweed company that seeks to restore marine biodiversity and promote carbon sequestration to support a healthier ocean ecosystem, was today named as one of 20 finalists by the XPRIZE Carbon Removal Competition. The XPRIZE is a four-year $100 million global competition that is one of the largest incentive prizes in history. It is open to innovators and teams that can create and demonstrate solutions that pull carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere or oceans and sequester it durably and sustainably. The 20 finalists will vie for a $50M grand prize to be announced in 2025.

Key Points: 
  • AMSTERDAM, May 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kelp Blue, an innovative seaweed company that seeks to restore marine biodiversity and promote carbon sequestration to support a healthier ocean ecosystem, was today named as one of 20 finalists by the XPRIZE Carbon Removal Competition.
  • The XPRIZE is a four-year $100 million global competition that is one of the largest incentive prizes in history.
  • Founded in 2020, Kelp Blue is at the forefront of developing innovative and sustainable solutions based on the cultivation of giant kelp.
  • XPRIZE Carbon Removal is aimed at tackling the biggest threat facing humanity—fighting climate change and rebalancing Earth's carbon cycle.

20 FINALISTS ANNOUNCED IN XPRIZE CARBON REMOVAL RACING TO REVERSE CLIMATE CHANGE

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水曜日, 5月 8, 2024
Carbon, Elon Musk, Risk, Climate, Built environment, Water, Farmer, Biomass, Farm, DAM, Soil, OAE, Prize, MIT, Economics, CDR, DAC, Robotics, Fertilizer, Macrocystis, Final, Climate change, OCP, Atmosphere of Earth, Safety, NRG, Health, Carbon cycle, NetZero, XPRIZE, Temperature, Student, Atmosphere, UNDO, Asbestos, Agriculture, Pyrolysis, Weather, DOC, Biodiversity, Pesticide, Seawater, Environment, ERW, ARCA, Nutrient, CO2, Growth, Renewable energy

LOS ANGELES, May 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- XPRIZE, the world's leader in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions to solve humanity's grand challenges, today announced the 20 finalist teams selected to compete in the last stage of its XPRIZE Carbon Removal. The four-year global competition is designed to combat climate change by rebalancing Earth's carbon cycle, offering $100 million to innovators who can create and demonstrate solutions that remove carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from the atmosphere or the oceans and sequester it durably and sustainably. The prize helped catalyze the growth of an entire new industry, galvanizing over 1,300 teams to develop new ideas for carbon dioxide removal (CDR). These 20 finalists represent leading CDR solutions with the potential to make meaningful contributions to a diverse, global, sustainable, gigatonne-scale CDR effort.

Key Points: 
  • "For the world to effectively address greenhouse gas emissions, carbon removal is an essential element of the path to Net Zero.
  • There's no way to reverse humanity's impact on the climate without extracting carbon from our atmosphere and oceans," said Anousheh Ansari, chief executive officer, XPRIZE.
  • The 20 finalist teams included below are listed by the competition's four removal pathway tracks: Air, Rocks, Oceans, Land, Oceans.
  • To date, XPRIZE Carbon Removal awarded $20M, with $5M distributed to 23 student teams, and $15M awarded to 15 milestone winners.

20 FINALISTS ANNOUNCED IN XPRIZE CARBON REMOVAL RACING TO REVERSE CLIMATE CHANGE

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水曜日, 5月 8, 2024
Carbon, Elon Musk, Risk, Climate, Built environment, Water, Farmer, Biomass, Farm, DAM, Soil, OAE, Prize, MIT, Economics, CDR, Robotics, Fertilizer, Macrocystis, Final, Climate change, OCP, Atmosphere of Earth, Safety, NRG, Health, Carbon cycle, NetZero, XPRIZE, Temperature, Student, Atmosphere, UNDO, Asbestos, Agriculture, Pyrolysis, Weather, DOC, Biodiversity, Pesticide, Seawater, Environment, ERW, ARCA, Nutrient, CO2, Growth, Renewable energy

LOS ANGELES, May 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- XPRIZE, the world's leader in designing and operating large-scale incentive competitions to solve humanity's grand challenges, today announced the 20 finalist teams selected to compete in the last stage of its XPRIZE Carbon Removal. The four-year global competition is designed to combat climate change by rebalancing Earth's carbon cycle, offering $100 million to innovators who can create and demonstrate solutions that remove carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from the atmosphere or the oceans and sequester it durably and sustainably. The prize helped catalyze the growth of an entire new industry, galvanizing over 1,300 teams to develop new ideas for carbon dioxide removal (CDR). These 20 finalists represent leading CDR solutions with the potential to make meaningful contributions to a diverse, global, sustainable, gigatonne-scale CDR effort.

Key Points: 
  • "For the world to effectively address greenhouse gas emissions, carbon removal is an essential element of the path to Net Zero.
  • There's no way to reverse humanity's impact on the climate without extracting carbon from our atmosphere and oceans," said Anousheh Ansari, chief executive officer, XPRIZE.
  • The 20 finalist teams included below are listed by the competition's four removal pathway tracks: Air, Rocks, Oceans, Land, Oceans.
  • To date, XPRIZE Carbon Removal awarded $20M, with $5M distributed to 23 student teams, and $15M awarded to 15 milestone winners.

Radicle Science Welcomes Former FTC Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour to Strategic Advisory Board

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火曜日, 5月 7, 2024
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SAN DIEGO, May 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Radicle Science, award-winning healthtech B-corp and Proof-as-a-Service pioneer, proudly announces the appointment of Pamela Jones Harbour, the first African-American female Commissioner of the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC), to its Strategic Advisory Board. Harbour's addition underscores Radicle Science's deep commitment to innovative research and regulatory compliance for the dietary supplement industry.

Key Points: 
  • SAN DIEGO, May 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Radicle Science, award-winning healthtech B-corp and Proof-as-a-Service pioneer, proudly announces the appointment of Pamela Jones Harbour, the first African-American female Commissioner of the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC), to its Strategic Advisory Board.
  • Harbour's addition underscores Radicle Science's deep commitment to innovative research and regulatory compliance for the dietary supplement industry.
  • Moreover, the large scale of the Radicle Science clinical trials enables highly diverse study populations, including those traditionally underrepresented in clinical trials.
  • Dr. Jeff Chen, Co-founder and CEO of Radicle Science, expressed his excitement about Harbour joining the advisory board, stating, "Pamela Harbour's extensive regulatory expertise is a perfectly timed addition to our advisory board.

AirMiners Awarded $300,000 in Department of Energy DAC EPIC Prize

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木曜日, 4月 18, 2024
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) has selected AirMiners as a finalist in the Direct Air Capture (DAC) Pre-Commercial Energy Program for Innovation Clusters (EPIC) Prize .

Key Points: 
  • The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) has selected AirMiners as a finalist in the Direct Air Capture (DAC) Pre-Commercial Energy Program for Innovation Clusters (EPIC) Prize .
  • AirMiners will receive a $300,000 cash prize for being selected as a Phase 2: “Move It” winner and will advance to Phase 3: “Prove It.” Earlier this month, AirMiners was awarded a $150,000 prize from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Program for Innovation Clusters (EPIC) Round 3.
  • The DAC EPIC Prize is a three-phase competition for incubators to propose new programming to support innovators working on equitable, hard-tech DAC solutions.
  • “Clean-tech incubators, like the DAC EPIC Prize finalists, are critical to development of the direct air capture (DAC) industry,” said Eli Cain, DAC Prizes Lead at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

The Carbon to Value Initiative Announces Year 4 of the Initiative's Carbontech Accelerator Program

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火曜日, 4月 16, 2024
AIR, Climate change, Technology readiness level, Ecosystem, Consulate, C2V, BASF, UFL, Fraunhofer, Partnership, Research, TRL, Growth, CLC, Fraunhofer Society, Biomass, Initiative, XPRIZE, Faculty, Economic development, Interim, Burial, Government, Student, Shell, Organization, Véronique, Management

SOMERVILLE, Mass. and HOUSTON and BROOKLYN, N.Y., April 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V Initiative)—a multi-year collaboration from the Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (UFL), Greentown Labs, and Fraunhofer USA—enthusiastically announces the fourth year of its world-class carbontech accelerator program. 

Key Points: 
  • and HOUSTON and BROOKLYN, N.Y., April 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Carbon to Value Initiative (C2V Initiative)—a multi-year collaboration from the Urban Future Lab at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (UFL), Greentown Labs , and Fraunhofer USA —enthusiastically announces the fourth year of its world-class carbontech accelerator program.
  • For its fourth accelerator cohort, the C2V Initiative and its Carbontech Leadership Council (CLC) are welcoming applications from startups at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 4-7 that are developing carbontech solutions.
  • More specifically, the program collaborators are interested in carbontech innovations related to the following categories:
    Carbon Conversion to Added-value Products, e.g.
  • Startups with a novel carbontech innovation are encouraged to apply even if their technology is not listed above.

CogX Festival Set to Debut in Los Angeles at Century Plaza on May 7th, 2024

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金曜日, 4月 12, 2024
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LOS ANGELES, April 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CogX, Europe's leading Festival of AI and transformational technology, today announced that its highly anticipated U.S. debut, CogX Festival LA, will take place at the iconic Century Plaza in Los Angeles, California, on May 7th, 2024. The event, hosted in partnership with Reuben Brothers, the visionary force behind Century Plaza's $2.5 billion transformation, will bring together the tech industry, global leaders, creatives, and policymakers to explore the biggest transformation opportunities of our time and address the critical question: "How do we get the next 10 years right?". 

Key Points: 
  • "The team at Century Plaza is honored to host the U.S. debut of the CogX Festival and excited for Los Angeles, and specifically Century City,  to be chosen as the city to showcase this global event," shared David Reuben, Jr., representing Reuben Brothers.
  • "We look forward to welcoming the brilliant guests of CogX Festival to experience the reimagined Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel, the Park Elm residential towers, and the vibrant atmosphere of Century Plaza."
  • "We're honored to partner with Reuben Brothers to bring the CogX Festival to the heart of Los Angeles at the iconic Century Plaza in Century City," said Charlie Muirhead, CEO of CogX.
  • Century Plaza is located at the intersection of Avenue of the Stars and Constellation Boulevard in Century City.

CogX Festival Set to Debut in Los Angeles at Century Plaza on May 7th, 2024

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金曜日, 4月 12, 2024
Stellar, Constellation, Investment, First wave, AI, Partnership, Google Play, Orbit, Nike, Decoded, LOS, Associate, Star, Machine learning, First Time, Singularity Group, Initial public offering, Town square, Inmarsat, Pearson plc, HBO, Heart, XPRIZE, Ford, General partnership, Former, Woman, Virgin Galactic, The Walt Disney Company, Genomics, IAF, David and Simon Reuben, Consultant, Marketing, UK Space Agency, Timeline, Access, Economic development, Film industry

LOS ANGELES, April 12, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- CogX, Europe's leading Festival of AI and transformational technology, today announced that its highly anticipated U.S. debut, CogX Festival LA, will take place at the iconic Century Plaza in Los Angeles, California, on May 7th, 2024. The event, hosted in partnership with Reuben Brothers, the visionary force behind Century Plaza's $2.5 billion transformation, will bring together the tech industry, global leaders, creatives, and policymakers to explore the biggest transformation opportunities of our time and address the critical question: "How do we get the next 10 years right?". 

Key Points: 
  • "The team at Century Plaza is honored to host the U.S. debut of the CogX Festival and excited for Los Angeles, and specifically Century City,  to be chosen as the city to showcase this global event," shared David Reuben, Jr., representing Reuben Brothers.
  • "We look forward to welcoming the brilliant guests of CogX Festival to experience the reimagined Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel, the Park Elm residential towers, and the vibrant atmosphere of Century Plaza."
  • "We're honored to partner with Reuben Brothers to bring the CogX Festival to the heart of Los Angeles at the iconic Century Plaza in Century City," said Charlie Muirhead, CEO of CogX.
  • Century Plaza is located at the intersection of Avenue of the Stars and Constellation Boulevard in Century City.

Final Program Announced for Abundant Nexus Conference

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水曜日, 3月 27, 2024
Start-Up, Education, Technology, Professional Services, Business, Semiconductor, Training, Nanotechnology, Hardware, Continuing, Electronic Design Automation, Nexus, MEMS, Health, Conference, XPRIZE, Committee, Child, Microsystems, The New York Times, Quality of life, Abundance, Abstract, Silicon, Civilization, Water, Creativity, Future, Convergence

The organizing committee of the conference event, Abundant Nexus: The Convergence of MEMS Technology, Entrepreneurism & Abundance , has today announced its final program.

Key Points: 
  • The organizing committee of the conference event, Abundant Nexus: The Convergence of MEMS Technology, Entrepreneurism & Abundance , has today announced its final program.
  • Driving Abundance was a key passion for the late Dr. Janusz Bryzek, a MEMS pioneer, and the person to whom this conference is dedicated.
  • EDITORS NOTE: Qualified editors are cordially invited to attend the Conference as complimentary guests of the organizers.
  • Those wishing a press pass for this purpose should contact Roger Grace at Roger Grace Associates for details: [email protected] .