
Elon Musk pledges $100 million for new X Prize carbon removal competition
A four-year contest seeking a gigaton-level solution
Elon Musk certainly has a lot of ideas. Since making a fortune from PayPal in the original dotcom boom, he's founded Tesla, which popularized the electric car, and SpaceX, the rocket company that now flies plenty of NASA payloads. Two newer companies — the Boring Company, focused on digging holes for transit tunnels, and NeuraLink, which is developing brain-computer interfaces — also occupy his time. Then there's the Hyperloop, the high-speed land travel design he's encouraged others to develop.
A four-year contest seeking a gigaton-level solution
Elon Musk’s startup takes aim at and beyond the famous Las Vegas Strip