U of M prof gets award for infrastructure innovation
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The University of Manitoba’s Barry Prentice and his Electric Airship Transportation System has won the $25,000 People’s Choice award in a national infrastructure innovation competition.
Prentice has long been an advocate for the use of motorized airships as a solution for heavy cargo transportation in Northern Canada where ground transportation networks are virtually non-existent.
His pitch to the national CanInfra Challenge, a private sector program with a rigorous vetting process, featured hydrogen fuel cell powered airships that can operate with zero carbon emissions.
The winners were announced late Tuesday.
“What a surprise,” Prentice emailed late Tuesday afternoon, after being informed previously that his pitch was left off the judges top three finalists.
But the people’s choice email voting process picked Prentice’s airship idea as the most popular.
The judges selected IceGrid, a Memorial University idea, as the winner of $50,000 first place prize. That idea is to decarbonize the energy grids of Nunavut communities by replacing diesel generators with power generated by wind and solar and stored in utility-scale batteries.
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