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Montreal offers $200k prize for cheap and easy to build ventilator design

5 pointsby 6y agoagorize.com
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6y agoHN ↗

I think this is the right aproach to bring all the cool ideas together and let them be evaluated. Ventilation is from what i know traditionally a lucrative nieche business by a few player who cannot easily ramp up production even if governments pour money into it now.