Windows 8 in reverse?..............
Gates exclaimed, “It’s water!”
I should hope so.
The machine is currently in the process of being shipped to Senegal. If it’s successful, we may see more of these.
I saw the video story on a local TV station (it’s a Washington state invention). The guy who helped invent it says that there are “rusting hulks” of machines that claimed to be able to do the same thing but failed to live up to their promise. I hope they succeed.
Certainly we can beat the name Omni?
Human sh*t converted into fresh clean water.
It could end up saving millions of lives in countries where modern plumbing and sanitation systems are non-existent.
We in the West enjoy the luxury of drinking treated waste water from our faucets.
Many people don’t.
Initial equipment Costs?
Operational Costs?
ROI?
A few missing details here.
But the filter cartridges cost you a million dollars, this is how they get you...
The children that escape the Bill and Melinda Gate third world abortion juggernaut will sincerely be thankful for the clean drinking water.
Got to hand it to Gates. He is truly trying to accomplish momentous things.
Didn’t Gulf Oil come up with some sort of gadget to do this in the late 60’s/early 70’s? I vaguely recall an ad they would run during The Wonderful World of Disney where they demonstrated this.
“Bill Gates and friends have developed...”
“You didn’t build that.” - B.Obama
Some say that Apple is at work on a better system.
Look up “Changing World Technologies”.
The basic science is sound - you use high heat and pressure to take some form of bio waste and turn it into pure water, a synthetic petroleum, and everything else can be centrifuged out as minerals or mineral oxides.
The problem is in the implementation - CWT failed because they were unable to make their plant scale up to a useful production level without constant complaints from nearby businesses and residences of foul odors being emanated from the plant.
I’ll wait for Service Pak 2.
Given California has had major water problems, maybe they ought to start shipping them there.
Article doesn’t mention a peep about how much maintenance it requires. In a place like Africa, that would mean is runs splendidly until it breaks down once, then it is a curious bit of sculpture.
Color me skeptical.
To burn the solids you must first separate it from the liquids and dry it thoroughly. Evaporating or vaporizing water takes a LOT of energy.
I will be very surprised if there’s enough fuel value here to even run the machine, much less produce “excess” electricity.
Willing to be convinced, but I’d like to see the input/output specs.
Well, I hope it works, but Bill Gates should drink the first glass of water to set an example.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just drill a well?
Interesting idea Gates has.
Dean Kamen has tried something like this 10 years ago with his “Sling shot” stirling engine water purification device.
$100,000 to produce each, Big maintenance issues / expertise needed to keep it running over the long haul.
Unfortunately, his initiative hasn’t gathered much steam, so to speak. (Pardon the pun)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slingshot_(water_vapor_distillation_system)
Allegedly built the pyramids and is the cradle of all civilization and learning but can’t build sewers or plumb running water.