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New aviation icing detection system developed in Alberta

New aviation icing detection system developed in Alberta

Work being done by Alberta company Pegasus, based in Sturgeon County, has gotten the attention of Boeing.

“Boeing is always looking for companies that show great innovation, great technology development,” said Charles ‘Duff’ Sullivan, president of Boeing Canada.

“We’re extremely honoured that they’re able to actually share this publicly, the work we’ve been able to do with them,” added the founder & CEO of Pegasus, Cole Rosentreter.

Pegasus has developed a “game changing” new technology for the aviation industry called Motion Icing Detection Alert System (MIDAS).

“We developed this technology that allows us to actually detect icing buildup in real-time,” Rosentreter said.

“This allows us to basically peel and patch onto any surface on an aircraft … to give you real time alerts and life-saving warnings at the very early onset of icing conditions,” Rosentreter said.

He said icing is one of the biggest hazards and costs for the aviation

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Economical way to turn captured carbon into clean fuel developed by Waterloo researchers

Economical way to turn captured carbon into clean fuel developed by Waterloo researchers

Researchers at the University of Waterloo say they have made a historic breakthrough when it comes to being able to capture carbon and turn it into sustainable, clean fuel in a way that’s economically viable.

Yimin Wu is a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering at the university and also the Tang Family Chair in New Energy Materials and Sustainability.

He says he and the researchers had three goals in their work:

  1. To mitigate carbon dioxide emissions, typically from industrial and transportation sources, that cause climate change.
  2. To make decarbonization financially feasible.
  3. Incorporate renewable electricity to develop new material for zero-emission transportation fuels and chemical feedstocks for industry.

Wu explained the findings to Craig Norris, host of CBC Kitchener-Waterloo’s The Morning Edition.

The following has been edited for length and clarity.

Craig Norris: Explain for us, in the simplest terms, what exactly you’ve done here.

Yimin Wu: So we developed

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