As reported by the Luskin Center for Innovation, “Carbon Upcycling, an interdisciplinary team from UCLA, today announced its official entry into the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE. Carbon Upcycling, headquartered in Los Angeles with 13 team members, is among a growing number of teams from around the world vying for a share of the $20-million prize purse.
The Carbon XPRIZE is a $20M competition that challenges teams to develop breakthrough technologies that convert the most CO2 into one or more products with the highest net value. Co-sponsored by NRG and COSIA, the multi-year competition is designed to address CO2 emissions from fossil fuels, a leading contributor to climate change.
Carbon Upcycling is composed of UCLA professors, students, and staff. The team has formed over the past year to explore new approaches for developing construction materials. Led by five distinguished professors including Gaurav Sant, Associate Professor and Henry Samueli Fellow in Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Professor J.R. DeShazo, Director of the UCLA Luskin Center and Professor of Public Policy, Urban Planning, and Environmental Engineering, the team has succeeded in developing a new technology which transforms waste carbon dioxide from power plants into a new building material that can replace cement, a material responsible for approximately 5 percent of worldwide CO2 emissions.”
For more information about team Carbon Upcycling, please visit http://www.co2upcycling.com/.
For more information about the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, visit http://carbon.xprize.org.