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.'"

Rumors

[GillBates0]

latest inventions designed to provide water to rural villages.

The rumormill says this time, "it" will consist of a rider on the segway carrying water bottles for the needy.

Powered by cow dung!

[Anonymous Coward]

Finally, a product that's worth a crap!

People need Internet access first

[Anonymous Coward]

Please don't talk to me about clean water and electricy until I've got a computer with internet access.

Even cats?

[Kaenneth]

What about cats?, will it make energy and clean water from cats?

If it only...

[Nom du Keyboard]

And the power generator makes a kilowatt off of anything that burns.

If he can get it to run off of old AOL CDs the power problem is solved for all of us.

Re:Rumors

[Anonymous Coward]

Only if Tesla invented the phonograph and the lightbulb, to name two.

Which he didn't.

God, you Tesla fan-boys are tiresome.

Tesla was important. Edison was more so. Get over it already.

Re:Stirling engines

[GungaDan]

Seals, eh? I would've suspected aardvarks. Damned nosy bastards.

Water and Electricity?

[Shag]

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?

Re:That's a lot of cow dung!

[ploss]

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.

Finally, a use for my cat

[shrtcircuit]

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!