Colbert and Kamen Solve the World's Water Problems
 

Some good news perhaps for a change:

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2...t-and-kam.html

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Re: Colbert and Kamen Solve the World's Water Problems
 

Pretty cool, although drinking distilled water on a constant basis might not be the best thing for you . . . but you could easily off set the distilled aspect.

Re: Colbert and Kamen Solve the World's Water Problems
 

No, not good news. The problem wasn't necessarily "disease". Disease has always been around, always will. The problem is over population.

http://www.susps.org/images/worldpopgr.gif

The technology presented here is amazing, but it definitely will not solve more problems than it causes or exacerbates. We already have near exponential growth in population, as seen in the graph above. That is not sustainable. Keeping hundreds of millions of people alive and well when they would've died simply means the food supply goes extremely thin. Instead of hunger only killing 30 million people annually it will be hundreds of millions of people. The scales adjust, but the problem is still the same. too many people.

This is a graph of bacterial growth. It applies here because we are acting similar to a bacteria during it's exponential phase. We are eating and using up resources with an insatiable appetite. Where does it end? When the resources run thin. (resources necessary for life being food, water, energy/oil).

http://www.ilri.org/InfoServ/Webpub/...%209%20P17.gif

The longer we go without entering into a balance with our resources, the harder the crash is going to be. As of now I'd say we are rather close to the apex of the growth phase. How many more billion can we have here?

Re: Colbert and Kamen Solve the World's Water Problems
 

Yes, population can grow rapidly. During the 1990s there were several consecutive years of increases of 95 million people.

Still, it takes nine months to fulfill a fabrication order -- nearly as slow as NWTM. On the down-slope side of the graph, there exist tremendous efficiencies not possible in fabrication. There are events which could cut the population by 3.5 billion in 10 minutes. People die easily.

I have a feeling that the population issue will be solved quite quickly at some point.

Re: Colbert and Kamen Solve the World's Water Problems
 

Good for him...

TPTB will stop him just like the guys that make cars run on water.

Did you catch the name of it Sling Shot a reference to David vs Goliath, the little guy versus the big guy.

Now when will he come out with a mini nuke reactor to charge my house and car....