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I just made Rocketing Rabbit. =)
I’m okay with Bobbing Bobcat. The goal in being a good shepherd is to keep the flock intact, not to be the best at shooting sheep
No link to the NCAA basketball scores? How ’bout them Hogs, Bradley?
Of course, it’s probably out last win of the tourney.
Try playing with a real mouse, and not your laptop.
the t-shirt is mine. I just wish they had one for the various forms of there/eir/y’re too.
good stuff
Rocketing Rabbit .1742 seconds
Rocketing Rabbit …
I guess I’m quicker than Radley!
[insert smiling emoticon here]
Your crazy if you want one of those shirts.
Can’t seem to find any info on the water purification project. I saw the Colbert with the interview. Didn’t say how it was powered. If those areas that need water also need a butt ton of electricity or other fuel, the chances of it having a large impact is minimal.
We have had pressurized membrane technology for some time. My employer uses it to extract chlorine and hydrogen from brine. Making pure water is a snap, but it takes lots of juice, at least the way we use it.
I can’t get past “bobbing bobcat” either. Neither can my friend. But her husband got to the top level really easily.
This game is going to be the end of my sanity.
Rocketing Rabbit - Avg. Time 0.1642 sec. - Sheep 1 = 0.000 sec.
the key to get faster is to listen, not watch.
What mistermike said. Energy is the problem. To me there doesn’t seem like there should be any thing tricky about distilling pure water out of whatever crap it was originally mixed in. You vaporize it into a gaseous form and then somewhere separate from the contaminants, condense it back to liquid form. Easy. Just takes a lot of energy. Unless its operates with some trifling amount of power (like a little solar cell array or a handcrank), this seems like about as revolutionary as the Segueway.
Apparently the key to the water purification system is that it’s a package deal - there’s a small generator that works along *with* the water purifier. The generator can burn just about anything (e.g.: cow dung) and the waste heat from the generator’s exhaust pipe makes the water purifier more efficient.
A little more googling found this summary:
http://www.time.com/time/2003/inventions/invwater.html
It seems to be a combination of microloan financing of mini powerplant with heat generated use to distill water. This could be very beneficial, but overhyped in Kamen’s usual style.
http://www.time.com/time/2003/inventions/invwater.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Kamen
http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/16/technology/business2_futureboy0216/index.htm
http://www.nextbillion.net/newsroom/2005/10/07/segway-grameenphone-founders-team-up-for-distributed-clean-water
http://www.solvent–recycling.com/azeotrope_1.html
Perhaps Radley would like this, if he could control the aiming:
Kamen has also invented a compressed-air-powered device which would launch a human into the air in order to quickly launch SWAT teams or other emergency workers to the roofs of tall, inaccessible buildings. (wikipedia)
mtc, I think that’s part of the point of this new thing: There’s no ‘filtering’ to separate the contaminants. So yes, it might need energy, but that’s all it needs: no membranes, no filters, no consumables.
I know that Kamens had been working on a way to use a stirling engine as a power source for water distillation. Those are very low power, just using heat differentials. I’m guessing he couldn’t get it that low power, tho.
“Can’t seem to find any info on the water purification project. I saw the Colbert with the interview. Didn’t say how it was powered.”
It’s powered by the Segway you have to buy to get the filter.
thank you!
You know, if Kamen is looking for an idea to market this thing, why not approach the producers of “Survivor”? Give it as a reward in one of the first challenges and have it set up in the middle of the camp. The winning team gets the advantage of not having to go to the well and boil their water, Kamen gets his publicity and we get a 39 day, real-world test of how well this device actually works when running off of coconut husks, shredded clothing and other detritus located around whatever location they shoot at next.
I’ll take $10,000 for the idea.