scalarparty ([info]scalarparty) wrote,
@ 2006-06-01 06:32:00
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DEKA's new water purifier works with anything (even cow poo)!
DEKA
I searched all of HUGG and elsewhere, to see of anyone has talked about this yet. And i am surprised that the response has been kinda lullish. Sure, the Segway didn't take over the world the way Jeff Bezos said it would [personally I'll hold off jugement and wait to see what one with a fuel cell can do (they were designed to run on FCs, thats a lot more juice, i expect to see a 60mph on/offroad segway for police and armies coming our soon enough],
but Dean Kamen's newest invention certainly can and hopefully will change the world. He has invented a stirling-engine based water purifer!!
"Distill the water, no matter how dirty, and bacteria, viruses, metals like arsenic and most other stuff will be removed. A few pollutants, ingredients in some pesticides for example, could remain, since they vaporize at about the same temperature as water, but they can be removed, if necessary, by other means." And Kamen tested it out recently in Bangladesh, powered by cow-poo it proved easy and reliable and of course made great clean water (1,000 liters a day!) Wowza!




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[info]socalledeconomy
2006-06-01 02:56 pm UTC (link)
I wonder what the cost will be?

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good value
(Anonymous)
2008-01-31 07:09 pm UTC (link)
compare to huge macro scale dam or well system. This thing is size of a dishwasher. Get some money behind it and economy of scale and it should be great. A village homeowner can run and maintain it. Great

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Re: good value
[info]scalarparty
2008-01-31 07:51 pm UTC (link)
oh yeah. compared to those things it's downright free! It's still WAY more expensive than say, Amy Smiths water purifying bags, but still a great thing.

~lee

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