Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup XCHALLENGE
Paid a $1.4 million purse to teams that could skim spilled ocean oil faster and cleaner.
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Launched after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, the prize ran ten finalist teams through a year of testing at OHMSETT, the U.S. national oil spill response research facility, simulating real spill conditions. Elastec won with a grooved disc skimmer that more than doubled the target recovery rate at nearly 90% efficiency; the technology was then commercialized and is now deployed at ports and o…
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