SPRIND - Bundesagentur für Sprunginnovationen hat dies direkt geteilt
We just announced the winners of our 2021 Challenge "Carbon-to-Value"! Back then, Carbon Dioxide Removal was a niche even in climate tech. But even in that niche, we chose to depart from the most prominent approaches like the Elon Musk Carbon Removal XPRIZE or Stripe's Frontier Climate, an advance purchase for carbon removal. Instead of focusing predominantly on permanence of storage for 1,000 years, we called for technologies that would incorporate the removed carbon in long-lasting and valuable products. That way, we aimed to build a bridge to large scale commercial deployment of these technologies. Otherwise, we feared, removing CO2 from the atmosphere will fall short of the required scale, as removing CO2 has no private value in itself and might see too little investor interest as a consequence. The three teams that outcompeted more than 70 competitors and made it to the final stage of the Challenge demonstrate how atmospheric CO2 can be incorporated into concrete and long-lasting engineering plastics! With our finalist teams so heterogeneous but with loads of potential, the jury couldn't decide on one winner. We therefore have three winners of the SPRIND Challenge "Carbon-to-Value"! I am immensely proud of the achievements of the 3 teams: Team Carbo Culture led by Christopher Carstens and Matt Mallory (he/him) Team MacroCarbon led by Dr. Mar Fernández-Méndez and Jason Cole Team enaDyne led by Philipp Hahn and Christian Koch Congratulations to all teams for a well deserved win! Many thanks to an awesome jury that not only selected the teams but also gave valuable advise to support the teams' development: Carlos Haertel, Anne Lamp, Dr. Henrik Pontzen, Richard Templer & Mark Hartney All info on this Challenge is available at https://lnkd.in/eR-PC9Yv SPRIND - Bundesagentur für Sprunginnovationen Rafael Laguna de la Vera Marie-Cathérine Arnold OLY Julia Ebenauer Sebastian Berns