Company Develops Microwave-powered Water Heater

dponce80 writes "Pulsar Advanced Technologies has announced that, starting next week, they will launch the MK4, a microwave-powered on-demand water heater. Why is this cool? Well, until now, you had two options: electric heaters that keep a large amount of water hot at all times, or natural gas heaters that heat up water on-demand. The first is very costly and wasteful, and the second is not available to everyone, especially those in rural areas. You can't heat water up quickly enough with conventional resistance-based electric elements, as it would require huge amount of electricity. Not so with microwaves. The Vulcanus MK4 can heat water from 35 degrees Fahrenheit to 140 degrees Fahrenheit in seconds and can source multiple applications at once: showers, dishwasher, sink usages and more. The Globe and Mail has an article with a little more information."

Comments

Good reason not to use microwaves...

[Hurricane78]

Welll... scientists found that after eating stuff that was heated in a microwave caused poeple to have the same blood values as someone who is short of getting cancer.
I would not want such blood values every time i eat or dring somethign hot...

No thanks! I'll wait 'till global warming solves it for everyone... ;P
(If you need it *now*, try aerogel!)

Re:Good reason not to use microwaves...

[Hurricane78]

Thank you, asshole!

First you insult me, then you call me a troll, then i tell you friendly why you are wrong, and then you call this a flamebait.

Is there a more assholy event (in hawking's meaning) than you and your little moments in this universe??

Shame on you. Hope we meet some time so i can bind your arms to differend trees, attach your head on the back of my car with a rope, rip your head off at 30 m/s in under 6 seconds, an shit into your throat!

But what does it do to the water. . ?

[Fantastic Lad]

Those from the homeopathic schools of thinking go pale at the idea of consuming microwaved water.

There are some interesting arguments behind that to be certain, but the area which stunned me, (and I'm a confirmed skeptic of microwave products), was that microwave ovens can actually damage food in ways which conventional heating does not. I did some reading, and then realized that, once again, I'd fallen prey to letting the general populace think for me. --I'd bought the corporate/government line without batting an eyelash. "Microwave ovens just cause water molecules to vibrate and thus heat up. Perfectly safe." This is a lie, and the research has been done to back it up.

Essentially. . ,

The frequency of the microwave will affect different molecules in different ways. Water is just one 'tuning'. There are others, and it can cause some atoms to heat up and change their relationships to other atoms in weird ways. When I first started looking at the simple microwave oven with a skeptical eye, I was surprised by what I found. Numerous complex compounds found in various foods, enzymes, vitamins, proteins, etc., are destroyed by microwave heating which otherwise remain intact with conventional heating methods. Some even apparently turn toxic.

http://www.geocities.com/newlibertyvillage/earthst ar/microwaves.htm

http://chetday.com/microwave.html

There are multiple sources on this, but they take a bit of work to dig up. The overwhelming belief that microwave food is safe is the major stumbling block. I didn't even bother looking until I randomly found an article on it last year.

-FL