http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_pritchard_invents_a_water_filter.html This is pretty incredible technology. Man deserves a nobel prize. Some might argue that bottled water only costs around 2 dollars a bottle so why would the government shell out 179 bucks for one of these. In terms of large scale or long term economics though, it seems like its significantly more feasible. The average individual probably drinks 4-5 bottles of water a day, especially under high stress situations, this would cost roughly 10 dollars. In a long term situation like Katrina, a person could probably drink 200-250 dollars of water. Seeing as this filters out 6000 liters of water before requiring a new filter you could just give one or two bottles to a family of 4 and they would be good to go for the entire duration.
that guy Chris looks like he wanted to puke after drinking the water but the camera went off him. awesome technology, 3rd world countries should have these, or large versions
WOW I am stunned by the low cost of this filtering system. Simply brilliant, hands down for that guy . Even tough I don't need it I still want one now ...
^ I don't know the size of smell or taste if that is filterable However, let say if we save all those 20 Billion people (whatever that amount was)... what happens after, or maybe I'm just an asshole
Yes interesting point ... so then we have even more people starving to death instead of people dying to other diseases. Its a dilemma, save them from dying of thirst or creating a larger population in need of jobs/food and a roof.
I saw that and was hoping Buglar was being hypothetical On planet earth 6 billion people is not a lot, every person in the world could fit in 'long island' and keep in mind that tons of food gets dumped every day because money cant be made out of it and giving it away for free is out of the question for the majority. anyway.... this is in order....
