Musking It!

Elon Musk is putting up $100m for a competition to invent ways of removing carbon dioxide (the potent greenhouse gas) from the atmosphere or the oceans, before storing it away safely (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/feb/08/elon-musk-pledges-100m-to-carbon-capture-contest). Musk's competition will involve 15 teams (chosen by him?) being given $1m each to develop ideas, with the remaining $50 going to the eventual winners. I must admit preferring to see smaller volumes of greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere, in the first place (rather than someone having to use technology to subsequently take it out). In spite of his championing electric cars, Musk's 'green credentials' appear somewhat tarnished by the operation of his SpaceX business. He seems happy to generate masses of carbon dioxide, encouraging rich folk to pay to be rocketed (briefly) into space (perhaps the winners of his competition can help Musk clean up after himself?). Musk also appears untroubled by the impact of his micro-satellites on the safe use of space as well as the operation of astronomy. Much of what Musk does, appears to me to be publicity-driven rather than being, in any sense, altruistic.