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Dean Kamens water machine
    #8178938 - 03/22/08 07:40 AM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Not only can this help the worlds' water problems, but if this could be put into a more portable form it would be awesome for on the go water desalination during oceanic voyages and the like. :awesome:

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Re: Dean Kamens water machine [Re: Riboflavin]
    #8179068 - 03/22/08 08:58 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

does the machine work off electricity?

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Re: Dean Kamens water machine [Re: milkman]
    #8179262 - 03/22/08 10:29 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

yeah, I was kind of wondering how much juice it uses myself


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Re: Dean Kamens water machine [Re: Riboflavin]
    #8191173 - 03/25/08 11:47 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

Woooooooooo woooooo wooo

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Re: Dean Kamens water machine [Re: Riboflavin]
    #8191255 - 03/25/08 12:16 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)


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Re: Dean Kamens water machine [Re: Annom]
    #8195140 - 03/26/08 02:52 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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Annom said:
Is it "just" a water distiller?




Seems to be.

See here
http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/16/technology/business2_futureboy0216/index.htm

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Re: Dean Kamens water machine [Re: Riboflavin]
    #8198945 - 03/26/08 09:32 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

I would hope the specs are free and open and this isn't just another person trying to make a buck off of the worlds problems.

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Re: Dean Kamens water machine [Re: fushock]
    #8198961 - 03/26/08 09:36 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

If solving the worlds problems is profitable, then the problems will get solved. The trouble is... people cannot make a buck by solving worlds problems.

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Re: Dean Kamens water machine [Re: DieCommie]
    #8199087 - 03/26/08 10:01 PM (16 years, 1 month ago)

The trouble is that people cannot solve the worlds problems by making a buck. I believe most of our problems are caused by trying to make a buck.

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Re: Dean Kamens water machine [Re: milkman]
    #8200874 - 03/27/08 10:52 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

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milkman said:
does the machine work off electricity?




I read some more on it, it sounds like it'll run off anything that burns.

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The Stirling engine, named after its designer, Robert Stirling, a 19th Century Scottish minister, is a non-polluting device that plays heat against cold to create energy. It is a closed box with two chambers, one filled with gas. Once heated from the outside, with anything from burning wood chips to charcoal, the gas expands, creating pressure. That pressure drives a piston from the hot chamber into the cool chamber.

In Kamen's design, that mechanical power achieves two goals: It creates electrical power - 300 continuous watts – enough to run a few electrical devices - and, as a bonus, creates enough heat to distill contaminated water, making it drinkable.




source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/12/60II/main529070.shtml


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Re: Dean Kamens water machine [Re: Riboflavin]
    #8200882 - 03/27/08 10:55 AM (16 years, 1 month ago)

That is better than just a distiller. A stirling engine to produce electricity and distils water with the waste heat.

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