New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg at the official start of the Auto X Prize.
Sometimes, people on the green fringe are called some not-so-nice names, with "crazy" being one of the more mild. But, if you're the kind of greenie who revels in the wacky, perhaps you've got an idea you'd like to share with the world and you're sick of yelling it from the highway overpass. Right now would be a good time to get your idea out there, because the mainstream X Prize Foundation is looking for "Crazy Green Ideas" and is willing to pay $25,000 for them. Well, for one of them at least.
The X Prize Foundation, which is putting together the Progressive Auto X Prize, today announced a video contest called "What's Your Crazy Green Idea?" that has a $25,000 prize for "the best video proposing a new, world-changing X PRIZE in the field of Energy and the Environment." Use dreams to power Segways? Capture energy from people typing on a keyboard to power the computer? Harness the energy from unladen swallows or migrating coconuts? These are all fair game for the crazy idea contest. Whether they'll win - well, that's up to the X Prize folks.
The short version of the rules is that they need to be two-minutes long, posted to YouTube soon (winners will be announced in December) and must answer the following three questions:
1. What is the specific prize idea?
2. What is the Grand Challenge or world-wide problem that you are trying to solve?
3. How will this prize benefit humanity?
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