We all complain about high fuel costs but here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an opportunity to do something about it. The X Prize Foundation, which awards prizes encouraging scientific innovation has recently set theor sites on green aviation and put their money where their mouth is. <\/p>\n
The lucky inventor who develops an environmentally sustainable jet fuel could earn themselves a cool $10 million. Of the ten large, $500,000 arrives thanks to a US Department of Transport (DOT) grant.<\/p>\n
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This isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the first time the X Prize gang has come up with such a reward for ingenuity as in 2004 they slapped $10m to the inventor of a reuseable craft designed for sub-orbital space flight. That winner was Scaled Composites,led by Burt Rutan by the way for those trivia buffs. Since 2004, three more annual X Prizes have been awarded for genomics, lunar exploration and (here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the topic of the moment) the design of more efficient cars.<\/p>\n
This year the X Prize committee wants potential entrants to turn their attention to the friendly skies by lessening our dependency on what comes from the ground. Sounds like a worthy cause to us.<\/p>\n
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