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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 22 2008, 05:35 AM (146 Views) | |
| George K | Apr 22 2008, 05:35 AM Post #1 |
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From Dean Kamen the guy who brought us the Segway. Dean Kamen unveils Slingshot, the ultimate water regenerator Part of saving our environment relies heavily on figuring out new ways to process our natural resources in a self-sustaining, cost effective way. Dean Kamen, the man who brought us the Segway, has just such a solution in the form of a water purification device called the Slingshot. Kamen claims the Slingshot can take nearly any source of moisture--including ocean water, urine or sewage--and quickly turn it into safe drinking water. The Slingshot process operates by means of vapor compression distillation, requires no filters, and can operate using the most efficient fuel known to man: cow dung. In addition to producing drinkable water, the Slingshot also generates enough electricity to light 70 energy-efficient light bulbs. In order to push adoption of the potentially Earth-changing gadget, Kamen hopes to seed thousands of the units with local village entrepreneurs, in much the same way independent cell phone businesses have thrived and gradually changed the face of many impoverished areas around the globe. Although not ready for pick-up at your local Wal Mart, Kamen’s future target price for the device is in the $1,000 to $2,000 range (a rather attractive price when you consider what we pay for laptops and cell phones). You can see Kamen showing off his new invention by vaporizing Stephen Colbert’s toxic potato chips here: http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index....?videoId=164485 |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| JBryan | Apr 22 2008, 05:43 AM Post #2 |
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I am the grey one
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Finally, a device that runs on bull****. We are set forever. |
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"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it". Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody. Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore. From The Lion in Winter. | |
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| George K | Apr 22 2008, 05:45 AM Post #3 |
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He probably modeled it after TNCR.
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Phlebas | Apr 22 2008, 05:55 AM Post #4 |
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Bull-Carp
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Isn't it bad to drink distilled water? |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 22 2008, 05:58 AM Post #5 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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It is. |
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| Moonbat | Apr 22 2008, 06:15 AM Post #6 |
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Pisa-Carp
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Why? |
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| Phlebas | Apr 22 2008, 06:18 AM Post #7 |
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Bull-Carp
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It takes minerals out of your body. "Regular" water has minerals in it, so it's already balanced - more or less. Experiment, pour distilled water an the same patch of cement every day. After a while, the cement weakens for the same reason. |
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Random FML: Today, I was fired by my boss in front of my coworkers. It would have been nice if I could have left the building before they started celebrating. FML The founding of the bulk of the world's nation states post 1914 is based on self-defined nationalisms. The bulk of those national movements involve territory that was ethnically mixed. The foundation of many of those nation states involved population movements in the aftermath. When the only one that is repeatedly held up as unjust and unjustifiable is the Zionist project, the term anti-semitism may very well be appropriate. - P*D | |
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| George K | Apr 22 2008, 06:19 AM Post #8 |
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I'm not sure that it "takes" minerals out of your body. Your kidneys are smarter than that. Perhaps an intake of nothing but distilled water would not *replenish* minerals lost in stool and sweat, but as to "taking out" I'm not so sure... Edit to add: http://www.durastill.com/myths.html
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Moonbat | Apr 22 2008, 06:19 AM Post #9 |
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Pisa-Carp
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Surely it costs enough energy to light 70 energy efficient light bulbs rather than generating it? In the video he said only water could get across but if it works by decompression and the recompression then you would end up with other volatile compounds going across to. I wonder whether it does infact transfer volatile compounds or whether there is something else going in that machine. Hmm |
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| Moonbat | Apr 22 2008, 06:20 AM Post #10 |
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Surely one can get minerals from food sources though? |
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| George K | Apr 22 2008, 06:23 AM Post #11 |
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See edit above. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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