The Water Plasma Purifier: Clean, Safe and Cheap Water for Billions of People. Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler have been making the case for Abundance for some time now. Whether you are skeptical or not, the evidence is piling up. One great example I came across today is the Chilean Water Plasma Purifier. (A few days ago I covered another example in Making Water Out of Air) The Water Plasma Purifier is documented by the two videos below. What is unique about this inventive gadget is not that it cleans water, but that it does it with the right combination of low cost, high energy efficiency, small size, low maintenance and high output. As Vivek Wadhwa notes in his Washington Post article: “If the system can be mass produced for less than $100, as Zolezzi believes, and the output passes the lab tests to which it is being subjected, it has the potential to provide clean, safe water to billions in the developing world.” The Waters Plasma Purifier on Reuters News: Video Transcript: (Soundbite) (Spanish) Rosa Reyes, Resident of San Jose de Cerrillos Camp, saying:
PWSS "Plasma Water Sanitation System" Tech & Social Vision. Alfredo Zolezzi: how a plasma water purifying system is saving lives. Spaceplay / pause escstop ffullscreen shift + ←→slower / faster (latest Chrome and Safari) ←→seek . seek to previous 12…6 seek to 10%, 20%, …60% "If we can connect people and their needs with the advancement of technology we will make a better world" claims Alfredo Zolezzi during his talk at Wired 2013. Zolezzi is a Chilean industrial designer and an expert in applied technological innovations. "For many years I was involved in innovation, but I discovered I was using 80 percent of my time just surviving and had little time to create," explains Zolezzi. Zolezzi soon developed technology that enhanced the recovery of oil from abandoned oil wells "using high-frequency and high-powered ultrasound waves.
" "I could have made billions," he said, "but there is no future if we do not change the way we are addressing our current problems. Wishing to refocus his efforts on humanitarian needs, Zolezzi set out to create a novel way of purifying water. Slingshot (water vapor distillation system) Slingshot is a water purification device created by Dean Kamen, inventor of the Segway PT.[1] Powered by a Stirling engine running on a combustible fuel source, it claims to be able to produce clean water from almost any source[2] by means of vapor compression distillation, requires no filters, and can operate using cow dung as fuel. The name of the machine is a reference to the slingshot used by David to defeat Goliath.[3] In his TEDMED 2010 presentation, Kamen announced several goals for and characteristics of the machine:[4] five years of operation without overhaul or maintenanceuse less than a kilowatt of power (lower than the power consumption of a hair dryer)generate 1000 liters of pure water/day, enough for 100 people for hygiene and cookingmeets the U.S. pharmacopoeic standard for water for injectionsrequires no pre-treatment, pipelines, engineers, consumables (osmosis membranes, charcoal etc.), or installation permits.
Dean Kamen - Inventor: SlingShot.