Seems like Zatoichi will have fit if water cars become the next generation of vehicles:>)
The Slingshot
An estimated 1.1 billion people in the world (20% of every person on the planet) go to sleep every night without clean water to bathe in or drink. The water they do have is tainted. One point one billion, with a "b."
"Eighty percent of all the diseases you could name would be wiped out if you just gave people clean water," says Kamen. "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."
The Slingshot's advanced Stirling Engine can run on any combustible product, propane or ...even cow dung (Wired)
The Stirling Engine, which is still considered a mystery to most engineers, can generate 1 kilowatt, or enough electricity to light 70 efficiency light bulbs according to Wired, and can be used as an electrical generator producing 200 watts of electricity and 800 watts of waste heat (TED)
The Slingshot weighs less than 60 pounds (TED) and is smaller than a portable washing machine (Wired)
The Slingshot uses vapor compression distillation to completely remove pure water from any "wet substance" (Wired) using just 2% of the power of anything that is currently in production
The Slingshot can produce 1,000 liters of fresh water per day
The heat from the purified water is recovered with a "counter-flow heat exchange" process and recycled to the next batch of water (TED)
There are no filters on the Slingshot to replace, no carbon filtration system, no fluoride or chlorine necessary, and no ion extraction process is utilized (Wired)
The Slingshot can use any water source available, safely: the ocean, bio-hazardous water sources, lakes, chemical waste dumps, removing everything from arsenic, hexavalent chrome, poison, heavy metals, etc.
The Slingshot is one of those once-in-a-lifetime inventions that truly can save the world. It takes any contaminated source of water, even pure raw sewage, and blasts the water out of the source by vaporizing it, extracting it, and storing it. The contents that have been extracted from the water is deposited in a separate bin and can even be used as a combustible to power the engine!
My favorite quote of Kamen's is the following, "Not required are engineers, pipelines, epidemiologists, or microbiologists. You don't need any -ologists. You don't need any building permits, bribery, or bur ... ucracies." Sounds like my kinda guy...
Kamen says that the prototype device is hand-machined at a cost of $100,000 - however, his goal is through mass production to lower the cost to $1,000 per unit.
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