Why isn the X PRIZE Foundation focused on solving the problems here on Earth?
We are! The X PRIZE Foundation runs prizes in a variety of sectors—Education and Global Development, Energy and the Environment, Exploration and Life Sciences—each of which is designed to generate radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity, We recently awarded $10 million through the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE, which challenged teams from around the world to build a new generation of viable, super-efficient vehicles that help break our addiction to oil and stem the effects of climate change. In addition to the Google Lunar X PRIZE, we are currently offering the $10 million Archon Genomics X PRIZE, which will help usher in an era of personalized medicine, and the $1.4 million Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE, which will stimulate the invention of technologies to help us mitigate future disasters like the 2010 Deep Horizon oil spill. Although the ‘finish line’ for the Google Lunar X PRIZE is off-planet, we believe that the main benefits of this competition occur
