Winner was reportedly offered an OBE for his charity work the following year but turned it down, saying: "An OBE is what you get if you clean the toilets well at King's Cross station".
According to Michaud, an AVE power station with a 656-foot diameter could generate 200 megawatts of clean electricity at a price as low as 0.03 cents a kilowatt-hour.
The scheme named the Captain Clean Energy Project, would see the creation of a new 570MW "low emission" coal power station with CO2 pumped into storage in offshore depleted gas fields.