Green Options » The Segway http://greenoptions.com/tag/the-segway Posts tagged 'The Segway' Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:06:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Drink Your Pee!: The Future of Water Filtration http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/10/08/drink-your-pee-the-future-of-water-filtration/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/10/08/drink-your-pee-the-future-of-water-filtration/#comments Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:06:38 +0000 Joe Mohr http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/10/08/drink-your-pee-the-future-of-water-filtration/

Dean Kamen wants you to drink your pee…or sewage, or toxic, disease infested water.

But not until after his Slingshot has worked its magic!

The Super-Inventor unfortunately most known for the failure of his Segway has segway-ed into world-changing inventions. His latest, the Slingshot, can turn any collection of water-containing cocktails (ie. urine, ocean water, toxic sludge, sewage etc.) into pure, distilled drinking water. The Slingshot does all this without the use of filters or reverse-osmosis membranes. It purifies the water-containing source using vapor compression distillation, and can run on cow manure! And as if that weren’t enough, the manure-powered Slingshot generates enough electricity to light 70 energy-efficient light bulbs.

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