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XPRIZE says it has named two winners in its $20M,
NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE competition. The competition challenged teams to convert CO2 emissions into valuable products. According to XPRIZE, it has awarded two companies
CarbonCure Technologies and
April 20, 2021
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The UCLA CarbonBuilt team, led by Gaurav Sant, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, won the prize in the competition’s track for technologies related to coal-fired power generation. By mitigating the carbon footprint of concrete, the team’s invention could eventually be a major step in the global battle against climate change, Sant said. (Also: Forbes and PA Media.)
NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, inspiring development of new CO₂ conversion technologies, chose two winners for their $20-million-dollar grand prize. CarbonCure of Alberta and CarbonBuilt of Los Angeles demonstrated technologies to decarbonize the concrete industry, a huge source of CO2 emissions.
By City News Service
Apr 19, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - A group of UCLA engineers has become the first university team to win the $7.5 million grand prize in the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE global competition, it was announced today.
The UCLA CarbonBuilt team, led by Gaurav Sant, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, won the prize in the competition s track for technologies related to coal-fired power generation.
By mitigating the carbon footprint of concrete, the team s invention could eventually be a major step in the global battle against climate change, Sant said.
The winning technology is considered a first-of-its-kind, eco-friendly approach for taking carbon dioxide emissions directly from power plants and other industrial facilities emissions that would otherwise go into the atmosphere and infusing them into a new type of concrete invented by the team, according to UCLA. As it hardens and gains strength, the specially