Should Branson's (Virgin Earth Challenge) $25M prize be awarded to a no-cost battery for electric cars/trucks?

Question

Richard Branson, the Virgin Airlines billionaire, with Al Gore (An Inconvenient Truth) are offering a money prize for someone who can show how to remove 1 billion tons of carbon from the planet's 7 billion ton annual discharge. This is called the Virgin Earth Challenge contest or the Branson prize for climate change to help end global warming.

Should the Virgin Earth Challenge judges award the Branson millions to the people who came up with three battery breakthroughs, and made an electric pickup truck work only on dead (scrapped) batteries, which reduce pollution at the same time?

The BBC documentary "The Truth About Global Warming" said that approx. 1/2 (around 50%) of a typical family's carbon output came from the typical families two automobiles.

Here's a link to the revived battery breakthrough in newspapers and TV:

http://tv-news-revived-batteries.blogspot.com/

http://revived-electric-car.blogspot.com/

So, pretend that you're be the Virgin Airlines Earth Challenge judge.

Answer 1

Your achievement is noteworthy, but you are ultimately still running on lead-acid technology. I would personally vote for a more modern technology, like the new Altairnano batteries in the Phoenix EV.

http://phoenixmotorcars.com/models/fleet...

Answer 2

You can try to make cars that pollute less, But until people travel less of use mass transportation more you will never reduce pollution .

All you do is change where the pollution comes from.

Power plants. All of those batteries will need to be recharged.

And who thinks that you could make a battery powered plane? How many batteries would it need to fly across the ocean?

Answer 3

I used to rebuild batteries as a part time job when I was in college in the 70's. What's the big deal ??