Wednesday, July 7, 2010

X PRIZE planned to help with BP oil spill clean up (GIZMAG)

The BP oil spill, as shown in a NASA satellite image
Whether it's reaching orbitlanding on the moon, building more efficient cars or speeding up human genome sequencing, the X PRIZE has become synonymous with driving innovation. Now there's another scenario that's crying out for the kind of radical breakthrough theses prizes are designed to achieve – the oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico. The X PRIZE Foundation is planning to answer this call with a new prize aimed at incentivizing privately-funded methods to quickly clean up crude oil from the ocean and coastlines around the spill. Read More

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