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Segway Inventor Turns To Environment
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.'"
The rumormill says this time, "it" will consist of a rider on the segway carrying water bottles for the needy.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
Finally, a product that's worth a crap!
If he can get it to run off of old AOL CDs the power problem is solved for all of us.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Seals, eh? I would've suspected aardvarks. Damned nosy bastards.
Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!
FTA: Inventor Dean Kamen wants to put entrepreneurs to work bringing water and electricity to the world's poor.
But... but... doesn't he realize that when you mix water and electricity, people get electrocuted?
Village idiot in some extremely smart villages.
Assuming your average patty weighs about 1kg, that would be:
E = 1kg * c^2, or 9 x 10^16 J.
So, converted efficiently, you could power the world for a year on 5300 kg of shit. (annual world energy usage = 4.75x10^20 J)
Maybe he should work on the mass->energy conversion problem instead.
What are the odds that some idiot will name his mutex ether-rot-mutex!
If he can make one of those cheap generators run on feline poo, I'm buying one! My cat craps more than any living thing I've ever seen. And judging by the near-nuclear potency of whatever comes out of that cat's ass, I'd say I should be able to power my house for quite a while!