The Russian startup We Can Fly intends to take part in a competition organized by American entrepreneur Elon Musk, with a developed technology for cleaning the Earth's atmosphere from carbon dioxide (CO2). This was reported on December 11 by TASS with reference to the company's press service.
We are talking about the international Xprize Carbon Removal competition, which is held by the Elon Musk Foundation and the Xprize Foundation.
"The We Can Fly community has proposed to solve the problem of global warming with the help of green microalgae, the research of which was conducted back in the Soviet Union," the report says.
According to the developers, the technology of biological capture and utilization of carbon dioxide Just Air is based on a strain of the green unicellular microalgae Micractinium. The development can also be used in deep space exploration, the company's press service noted.
"Such organisms have been studied in cosmonautics since the time of Korolev to create isolated biospheres that will be needed when flying into deep space and creating planetary bases," the developers stressed.
The founder of We Can Fly, space engineer Alexander Shaenko invited teams and startups who were interested in developing their projects on microalgae and their application to cooperate with the company.
"Our ultimate goal is to develop technology on Earth and bring it to a level suitable for use in space. Only such biological life support systems will allow a person to go beyond the Earth's orbit, build bases on the Moon and Mars and even master asteroids," the developers believe.
On October 11, it was reported that the Russian developer of software for facial recognition and intelligent video analytics NtechLab won the first international startup competition G20 Innovation League.
In August, the NtechLab facial recognition system was implemented on the busiest section of India's railways. The technology was equipped with cameras at 30 railway stations. The system recognizes up to 50 people in the frame and is used to manage passenger traffic, count passengers, as well as to search for criminals.
