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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. Wait... by LeonGeeste · · Score: 0, Troll

    Someone remind me, is this the same guy who used a gyroscope with a 60 Hz sampling rate for stability rather than, I don't know, a third wheel?

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  2. i remember by hiphophap · · Score: 0, Troll
    I remember all the hype regarding the segway. Everyone was saying it was the key to everything.

    now fast forward to the present.

    I've only seen one of them in real life actually being used. None of my friends use it.

    so is this going to be another hype engine? he should prehaps donate it too all needy people, if it is so good.

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  3. Hate to say it... by TheNoxx · · Score: -1, Troll

    But people have been trying this for a looong time, and somehow I don't believe that the inventor of the "segway" has the intellectual chutzpah to do it.

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  4. Burning Garbage? by MattNukem · · Score: -1, Troll

    Burning garbage? I thought he was trying to *help* the environment...

  5. This is good news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...after all it wouldn't be politically correct to let all those fucking AIDS infested low IQ niggers to die off over in Africa now would it? I wonder how many kilowatts you can generate burning niggers in his device?

  6. I call... by corellon13 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Bullshit on this one : )

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  7. And the next step is ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What all these do gooders seem to fail to reckon
    is the next step : what if indeed they do solve the
    world problems : war, hunger, disease, etc...

    Than what happens ?

    Unchecked, unbound, exponential population growth,
    that's what. Which leads to resource exhaustion and
    one very large catastrophe instead of a string of
    small, predictable, controled ones.

  8. Re:Rumors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Tesla invented X-rays!? Wow! All this time I've been giving God the credit for that one! Thanks for the info!