"Space and sedan baron Elon Musk pledged to donate a $100 million prize to what he deems the best carbon capture technology. The Tesla CEO wants to save the world of course and get a cheaper, cleaner feedstock to cook up fuel for his rockets. He also wants to bask in the glow of a little green Twitter buzz, which is often what these kinds of contests are best for.

The so-called moonshot prize is a centuries-old tactic that falls somewhere on the spectrum between time-shrinking innovation catalyst and carnival barking. The difference is in the details. "

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-01-24/elon-musk-pledges-100-mill...

And here I thought that CCS was a proven technology and it was only recalcitrant governments who were impeding its use.