This clip comes from the March 20, 2008 episode of Comedy Central’s "The Colbert Report" and features guest Dean Kamen and his latest invention–a water purifier that can clean virtually *any* type of water with none of the standard filters or parts associated with the expensive/cumbersome water purifiers currently available. According to a March 31, 2008 article at Wired.com (here: http://blog.wired.com/…-save.html ):
The Slingshot is a water purifier which uses vapor compression distillation to pull water out of anything remotely wet. It does this using just 2% of the power of alternatives, and can supply 1,000 liters of fresh water a day from nothing more than ditchwater and piss.
The article goes on to say that the device gets it’s power from a generator that can run on anything that burns, including cow dung.
And to think most of the news has been worried about Obama’s pastor, or Hillary lying about being under sniper-fire with Sinbad.
Meanwhile, Dean Kamen has unveiled a device that could save millions of lives–possibly hundreds of millions of lives around the world.
When I first saw this story on "Colbert" it literally brought tears to my eyes, thinking of all the good it could do. I wonder what other stories like this the media is effectively burying.
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