XPRIZE and Musk Foundation name UBC student's venture among 23 winners in $5 million carbon removal student competition.
Takachar—co-founded by entrepreneur Kevin Kung, postdoctoral fellow, UBC Chemical and Biological Engineering—has developed a cheap, small-scale, portable technology that attaches to tractors in remote farms. The machine converts crop residues into sellable bio-products like fuel and fertilizer, and reduces smoke emissions by up to 98 per cent.
Kung, who is also Takachar’s CTO, is currently in Phase 3 of entrepreneurship@UBC’s venture-building program.
Winning teams showcased concepts and technologies for scalable carbon dioxide removal. Learn more about XPRIZE Carbon Removal at xprize.org/carbonremoval.