X Prize’s Call for Votes in Next Big Crazy Green Idea Challenge
The X Prize Foundation is looking for a new challenge for their next Energy and Environment prize, and they want Gizmodo readers to vote on it. The X Prize is an educational nonprofit prize institute dedicated to create radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity, like when Burt Rutan built and flew the world’s first private spaceship to win the $US10 million Ansari X Prize. To propose the challenge for the next big crazy green idea, they have selected the best three from 133 videos:
The Capacitor Challenge
The Energy Independence X PRIZE
Energy X-Prize: Reduce Home Energy Usage
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I definitely agree with the last two posts. The efficiency prize has its difficulties but it is the only way to go. We need an immediate impact on reducing CO2 emissions to curb the effect of climate change.
The other two prizes rely on new technologies that will take years to develop and mass-implement. Energy efficiency is the only concept that can have an immediate impact…and we think the goals outlined in the video are too low. 10% energy reduction is too easy to meet and more than 10% of the population will participate if it is organized correctly with the proper incentives.