In a statement, Michaud said AVEtec successfully tested a 13-foot-wide power plant prototype in 2009 and that the startup would use the Breakout Labs grant to build a bigger version in collaboration with Lambton College in Sarnia, Ontario.
In the application for permission submitted to the County of Lambton council, it was stated that the process would see the work "elevated to myth status", creating a topic of conversation and strengthening community as a consequence, the idea being that people would share the mystery of their city.