Meet the $15M Milestone Award Winners

and now let we comment this video / project by Elon Musk, but first let we share more details:

XPRIZE Carbon Removal is aimed at tackling the biggest threat facing humanity - fighting climate change and rebalancing Earth’s carbon cycle. Funded by Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation, this $100M competition is the largest incentive prize in history, an extraordinary milestone.‎

Team registration opened with the announcement of the full competition guidelines on Earth Day, April 22nd 2021. The competition will last for 4 years through Earth Day 2025.

To win the prize teams must demonstrate CO2 removal at the 1000 tonne per year scale, model costs at the million ton per year (megatonne) scale, and present a plan to sustainably reach gigatonne per year scale in future. In the first phase of the competition, teams must demonstrate the key component of their carbon removal solution, at a minimum.

The $100M prize purse will be distributed as follows:

After 1 year of competition the judges will review all submissions received by that time and award up to 15 Milestone Prizes of $1 million each.

After 4 years, judges will select the winners:

Bullet point
$50 million paid to the single Grand Prize Winner

Bullet point
$30 million to be distributed among up to 3 runners up

XPRIZE will also award up to US$5M to student teams in the Fall of 2021.

First at all, better doing something than nothing, but still doesn't mean that Elon Musk is really focused on climate change because
1) he own 246000 mio and wasted 4000 mio with Twitter! this means 0.04% of all money he owns or 2.5% of the money he wasted with Twitter, so it just ridiculous low https://perma.cc/Y2CF-HLUQ
2) Biden announced a $600 million investment to combat climate change | June 19, 2023 —> 6x more than Elon Musk, even if Biden did a great shit with the Willow Project
3) "Unlike most pure electric passenger cars, Tesla Model 3 not only has a GHG emissions higher than the average GHG emissions of same class ICEV in the raw material acquisition stage and production stage, but also has a GHG emissions value higher than the average GHG emissions of same class ICEV in the usage stage." from Carbon Footprint Study of Tesla Model 3

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4) Conclusions from "Analysis of Electric Vehicles Efficiency and their Influence on Environmental Pollution"
5) "In the production of Tesla cars, more pollution is produced than when producing ICE cars, but considering the entire life cycle of the product, Tesla ́s overall GHG pollution is lower than any ICE car ... Another fact to consider is the source of energy used during the manufacturing process ... How can tesla be more sustainable? The use of Li-ion batteries must stop. Many universities and organisations are working to find a better solution, for example salt-based batteries. If Tesla cannot substitute the use of Li-ion batteries, it should invest in research in the topic, make the batteries recyclable and long lasting and find sustainable sources of lithium" from "How sustainable is Tesla? - University of South-Eastern Norway"

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World's richest 1% cause double CO2 emissions of poorest 50%, says Oxfam
https://perma.cc/N5BF-FUTY

12 most important things people should / need to do, if they really want to change the current critical planet situation. Remember, you don't need to be perfect, you just need to do something to stop our climate change issue!

Data is beauty, there is no doubt at all. Reason why r/dataisbeautiful r/MapPorn r/datamaps r/mapporncirclejerk r/Maps r/Map_Porn are cool. But such data is a SERIOUS ISSUE FOR OUR PLANET!!! Another Year of Temperature Record Heat for the Oceans

1) don't buy things you don't need

2) don't trash things in the nature (even your cigarettes!) —> proper recycling

3) don't waste water or other things

4) don't say "we cannot do anything" and take action when you can!

5) love animals, because animals have an important influence to climate changes, just see https://perma.cc/UQH6-V7VY
and because animals have the same rights to live like humans.

6) don't keep things always on, if you don't use them. Turn such devices off if you can.

7) don't use jets, yachts, space tourism rockets just for fun (don't use all that at all, otherwise you just act like rich people that give a shit to our planet). They are a great source for pollution. More infos @ClimateChangeTelegram https://perma.cc/GEP8-E2CX and https://perma.cc/N6TV-YRPV

8) if possible avoid to make long trips every day! and if possible don't use airplane for 20min trips!

9) don't be such people "all or nothing", so "if you do 1-3x planes at years" is not ok for them. You don't need to be perfect and don't live your life anymore! Small actions are already enough. But if no one is doing that, nothing will change

10) Ukraine - Russia war was a great example. People with the fear to live a cold winter. Reality. We NEVER used heating in the last years, because it was not necessary. So don't be such people that go to the doctor ever 3 seconds, need heating even if not necessary (and if they do that, they maybe set it to max too ... wearing t-shirts or even less at home), same for the summer ... (just think some shopping centers ... it's more a freezer, not a shopping center).

11) if you are CEO, don't be a shit CEO! Because even CEO are humans, so what big brands are doing, it's a decision made by CEOs and other people. So act properly, not just with money in mind. The same for politicians and many other people.

12) don't write bullshit "we are doing something for the planet" if at the end you are not doing that (this especially some brands), or you use this climate change issues as a way to make more money, donating just 1% of what you get to nature oriented projects, even if your brand name is related to 100% climate change / nature. There are many similar brands. For clients, don't waste money with such companies, better to donate money to serious organisations!

Part 1 https://t.me/AnimalFreaks/1194

The songs that have caused the most carbon emissions | If you love to listen to a song over and over again, download the track on your device. Online requires much more energy than offline AND remember Mac > TV https://perma.cc/TAL9-CSVU