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Segway Inventor Turns To Environment

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the making-sure-we-still-have-one dept.

MBCook writes "CNN has an article in which they talk about Dean Kamen's latest inventions designed to provide water to rural villages. His goal is also to provide electricity and opportunities for entrepreneurship. From the article: '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.'"

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  1. Re:Hate to say it... by Quill_28 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yeah, he's a real dope. No intelligence at all. Hummm... kinda remains me of you. ::rolls eyes::

  2. Re:market to first world countries too! by benjamindees · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Okay. But it's neither cheap nor easy to get gasoline in the middle of the brush in a country that doesn't use the largest military in the world to subsidize the price of gasoline.

    And, in case you missed it, it's quite possible that worldwide petroleum production has already peaked. So that solution isn't getting any cheaper.

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