He did not do so well with the Segway but this is amazing.....even ocean water....
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The water purifier makes 1,000 liters of clean water a day, and we don't care what goes into it. And the power generator makes a kilowatt off of anything that burns."
He tested two machines in Bangladesh with the help of Iqbal Quadir, the founder of Grameen Phone, largest cell phone company in Bangladesh. Quadir is very impressed with the machines and soon plans to start manufacturing the machines with licensing from Kamen’s company.
The generator of this machine can be powered by readily available local fuel, cow dung and can produce a kilowatt of electricity. It doesn’t look much but it is doing dual purpose generating electricity as well as filtering water. Even if it powers light bulbs it will help productivity in developing nations.
Kamen will connect the water distiller called Slingshot to this generator and use some of the energy that is wasted by it to purify the water. The Slingshot takes in contaminated water (or raw sewage) and separates out the clean water by vaporization.
Currently the machines costs about $100,000 but with mass production and better design they plan to cut it down to $1,000 to $2,000 per machine.
Some of the main features of this Slingshot are:
1.) It is designed to supply a village with 1,000 liters/day of clean water
2.) You can use any water source, ocean, puddle, chemical waste site, hexavalent chrome, arsenic, poison, 50 gallon drum of urine
3.) The are no filters to replace, no charcoal, no anything disposable (just distillation)
4.) The Slingshot can use half the waste heat (450 watts) from a sterling engine electrical generator (prototype also being designed by Kamen's company) to boil its water
5.) Slingshot will be less then 60 lbs.
6.) The sterling engine, used as an electrical generator, can produce about 200 watts of power (it will never be more then 20% efficient) and 800 watts of waste heat. This waste heat is then used to purify the water.
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An amazing invention if it actually works as promised, and can be produced and sold for 1/100 of the initial price. We shall see.
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wow.. did he say power by pooh? and you get kilowatt of power?!? - I want one.. as I know a lot of people that are full of it. LOL
that is amazing..
It will clean any source of water..amazing. [ I hope it will not be held up in courts by companies who claim the idea was theirs or worse just have other motives to stop it from production ]
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I watched a documentary (I wish I could remember what network I saw it on) on Dean Kamen a number of years ago and they profiled this device or early prototypes and how it would be a revolution for villages in Africa. So while it is being called "new" he has been working on it for a very long time now.
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I'm not absolutely sure what the "and other patents pending" means. Does it mean he has other patents on other inventions pending or other patents on the water purifier pending. I think they mean other patents on other inventions pending.
I'm not absolutely sure what the "and other patents pending" means. Does it mean he has other patents on other inventions pending or other patents on the water purifier pending. I think they mean other patents on other inventions pending.
It's not really clear (to me at least) as there are referenced patents relating to the water purifying system. I am sure that such a sophisticated system would require several patents to protect the entire system so it is probably other patents for the system and patents that have nothing to do with the water purification system.
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