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April 22, 2025 - The David Knight Show
12:39
Elon Musk’s $100M Carbon Capture Con: Green is the Color of Money
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Probably today, and this contest has been running for, you know, four years, and today is supposed to be the day that they announce the winners in this $100 million contest that Elon Musk is doing.
I don't know, does he get the intellectual property rights for this after these people have done it?
He's talking about how, well, you know, the idea is great, but, you know, it's putting it, scaling it up and getting it to where that's where all the real work and capital has to go into it and everything.
So, you know, maybe he...
Pay them off for their idea, and he'll own it, and then he'll develop it with government subsidies because there's not any green grift out there that Elon Musk doesn't have his doge fingers on.
Give me a break.
He's going to look at government waste and everything, and yet the man who became the world's richest man in history, the richest man in history, becoming rich off of this green nonsense, he's not going to take a look at these types of things.
So, breakthroughs that benefit humanity.
That's what the Musk Foundation is about.
You're going to wind up seeing this everywhere, just like the Gates Foundation.
And so, in celebration of Earth Day, they kicked this thing off back in 2021.
And then, this is an article that was written one year after.
And they had 15 milestone winning teams, one year later, had been awarded $1 million to recognize their efforts to date and to support their continued work to scale solutions.
The overall winners will be awarded $80 million in 2025, today.
So, this is the X Prize, is what Elon Musk said four years ago.
was to fight climate change and rebalance the Earth's carbon cycle.
This $100 million competition, funded by Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation, is the largest incentive prize in history, and the XPRIZE Carbon Removal Teams represent the largest collection of innovators working on carbon removal.
I mean, our goal is like basically to do something that is, you know,
Have it be sort of interesting, fun, and ultimately useful, and to spur creative ideas for what is actually the smartest way to take the trillions of tons of carbon that we've removed from the ground, and will remove from the ground, from deep,
deep underground, and we've placed that carbon in the atmosphere and oceans, which obviously changes the chemical constituency of the surface of the Earth.
And since we know that long-term We're going to have to have renewable energy anyway.
What utter nonsense.
0.04%.
Because we'll run out of oil and gas.
It's not going to last forever.
Yeah, it will.
So we know where this ends up.
It has to end up with renewable, sustainable energy.
It's tautological.
It's really just the question of, do we try to get there sooner or later?
And we should try to get there sooner.
It's obvious.
How long do you want to run this experiment?
Tomorrow we've got our third astronaut launch.
Before we dive into the carbon removal rules and so forth, I mean, it's obviously a bit of a dichotomy, because our rockets do produce carbon.
True. What a hypocrite.
He's obviously just in for the money.
No, yeah, you are.
Let's talk about the crew too.
I think I should address this.
Roger being a hypocrite by launching rockets that produce carbon.
The problem is, right now, there's really no way to get around the physics of a rocket.
I think it's important for the long-term preservation and ultimately the expansion and extension of the scope and scale of consciousness and the long-term probably survival of humanity and life as we know it.
We must become a multi-planet species.
A multi-planet species.
Well, see, rockets are necessary.
And so he gets a pass on that.
Just like the private jets are necessary for all the captains of industry and the big politicians to fly around.
They've got to take private jets so they can talk about how they're going to take stuff from us, right?
And you heard the lies there about renewables.
Well, you know, we've only got so much oil in the ground.
Sooner or later, there won't be none around.
That was what they were saying with the oil crisis.
That was a song from Tower of Power.
But they're not interested.
they were
No, they don't want you to have power.
And they want to pull CO2 out and put it in the ground and leave the oil in the ground.
You know, this whole thing about peak oil was invented by the CIA.
It's a CIA invention.
It's a lie.
It's gaslighting.
And I've shown many times the Time and Newsweek stuff, the oil crisis that happened in 1979.
They're both putting out stuff.
We're going to be out of oil and natural gas by the mid-1980s, they said.
Well, here we are 40 years later, and there's even more of it.
I don't think that it's coming from dinosaurs.
See, all of this stuff, you know, even Sinclair Oil used to have the dinosaur.
I remember 1964 World's Fair.
It had all the dinosaur stuff and everything.
All the oil comes from dinosaurs.
It's a limited supply.
And you're going to have to pay us a lot to get that, right?
No, it's not.
No, it's not.
It's probably just something that is coming from organic material as it decays and gets recycled.
But whatever.
There's vast amounts of it.
We've got more of it today than we did 40 years ago.
And so all this stuff about peak oil, that's a lie from the CIA.
And they laid that out there.
First of all, it's limited.
We're going to run out of it in no time at all.
Peak oil, all the rest of this stuff.
Then they started talking about, well, what's renewable?
Oh, well, renewables are wind and sun and all the rest of this stuff.
It was all just a game.
It was all just semantics.
So, that was one year after the contest.
That was as the contest was kicking off then, right?
This article was written one year afterwards.
They said the competition now completely resets before the remaining $80 million prize purse is awarded in 2025, today.
But they had more to say about the prize, Elon Musk, and this other guy who I think is with the Musk Foundation.
So, Elon, this is the largest prize ever, ever, largest incentive prize ever, and I would argue for one of the most largest civilization-scale challenges we have.
Sure. And we can get into the rules in a second so that folks who are looking at creating teams can understand why we created those rules.
But why did you fund this?
Let's start with the rules.
why there.
It's amazing to see how he's shifted, isn't it?
I wanted to spur ideas and thinking about the long-term need to
Capture carbon.
And I think this is one of those things that's going to take a while to figure out what the right solution is.
And especially to figure out what the best economics are for CO2 removal.
And think through all the consequences.
You don't want the cure to be worse than the disease.
Yeah, it's definitely worse.
There is no disease.
I'm like, that's not so easy.
It's like there's no COVID pandemic.
Sure, exactly.
And then you've got to, like, okay, well, you need to get fertilizer.
You're going to water them.
Where's the water going to come from?
What habitat are you potentially destroying where the trees used to be?
Trees are no solution.
Got to pay me.
So we'll talk about the prize amounts and so forth.
They've got to actually build something that works and demonstrate something that can extract a thousand tons per year, a kiloton of carbon per year as a demo scale model.
And the hardest thing is that the winning team has to...
We've proved to our judges that their approach can actually scale to a gigaton level.
Otherwise, it's not going to be useful.
Exactly. It can't be niche.
It can't be inherently niche.
So let's talk about the prizes that are up for grabs.
First place is going to be $50 million, which is significant.
Our hope is that it's going to attract enough cognitive surplus out there to focus in on this.
$30 million split between sort of a second, third, and fourth place.
I wonder what that Musk Foundation guy, I wonder what he thinks of his boss today.
You know, that was three years ago.
You know, he was all about, oh, this is civilizational type of stuff.
We've got to save the world and all the rest of the stuff.
What does he think?
I mean, does he really believe all that stuff anyway?
Is he really that dense?
Or is he just doing it for the money?
If he's doing it for the money, he's fine with his boss, Elon Musk.
But this is one of the reasons why these people are so upset with Elon Musk.
Part of it is the Trump thing, but another part of it is that hell hath no fury, like a climate alarmist who's been scorned.
These people, they see Elon Musk as not only a...
A betrayer to them politically.
He was on their side.
He was a hardcore leftist Democrat just a couple of years ago.
Now he suddenly switched side scenes on the side of Trump, a man that they hate.
But he has betrayed them over something that these true believers think is really going to kill everybody on the planet.
And they don't realize that the people they've been following, the people who created this fake narrative, want to kill most of the people on the planet.
And they've chosen the Green New Deal to do it.
So, to win the grand prize that's going to be announced today, the teams had to demonstrate a working solution at scale of at least 1,000 tons removed per year.
They had to model their costs on a scale of 1 million tons per year and then show a pathway to achieve a scale of a gigatons per year.
And I have no idea how much that is.
I just got to remind you that there's not that much CO2 out there in the atmosphere.
Is it going to turn Earth into Mars?
You know, this dead, lifeless planet where the plants can't grow because they don't have any CO2?
The Musk Foundation creates grants that are made in support of renewable energy research and advocacy.
Grants about human space exploration and research.
Grants about pediatric research and safe artificial intelligence to benefit humanity.
Well, again, he's not going to look carefully at the rockets.
The rockets go up, the rockets come down.
It's not my concern.
I'm here to get rich.
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