My brother is an Index Award finalist

[SelkieDVM]

I just heard that my brother is a finalist for the 2009 Index Award, an international design award with a prize of 500k euros. He's a hydrodynamics engineer at Duke as well as an avid diver. The link goes to a little blurb involving his work designing wind turbine blades based on whale fins. Needless to say I'm very proud of him. But I had to hear the news from mom, because he never tells anybody anything. Posting here is my way of getting back at hime.

Way to go, bro!

INDEX: DESIGN TO IMPROVE LIFE

 

[SelkieDVM]

Not sure why the link included the smilie, but it works anyway.

 

[letterboy]

 

[DandyDon]

Cool. you can fix that link, but too much trouble probly.

 

[diversteve]

.vbulletin interprets :D as a smilie. putting a space between : and D fixed it.

 

[SelkieDVM]

Thank you!

 

[Randy43068]

Good deal! Lets hope he wins!!

 

[Rick Murchison]

"Of course!" is my reaction to the design. I see potential here for subsonic airfoils (airliner wings) as well.
Cool!
BZ to your brother.
Rick

 

[Tom Winters]

I saw that the design team included Dr. Frank E. Fish. Considering the fact that the embedded design is based on a whale tail, why could they not include Dr. Richard Moby on this project?
If word of this semi-outrage gets out in Cetacea, there's going to be a lot of whales who are going to feel they got fluked yet again.
So the prize is 500,000 € - after the EU gets done taking taxes out, the winners get a t-shirt saying "I won the Index Award and all I got after taxes was this lousy t-shirt" plus a bill for the t-shirt.

 

[SelkieDVM]

Well, he didn't win anyway. All he got was a tuxedo and a trip to Copenhagen, not sure about the t-shirt.