Pedal Powered Water Distillery

[Comfytees]

Distilled water isnt good if u drink too much and can dehydrate u even more from what i heard. Anyone confirm this?

[BeanTheForce]

Now if you could hook it up to some sort of windmill...

[DeWoodyard]

What increase could be had with gearing at the output (rear bike wheel)?

[davematthewsblows]

what happens when Ian runs out of fuel? does he have a service life? just kidding, nice work.

[samljer]

If you put that device on both sides of the wheel you can effectivly double

output. making it a little more worth while.

[nakedblasphemy]

big man lurch on the bike 8-) but nice idea ..

there are sooo many ways to use multiple sources of energy to do this ... we really need to get our heads together and start putting these up all over the world ... can't wait for corporate interests .. just need small scale large widely distributed ideas to change the world 8-) and PS ... CLEAN renewable energy ? RIDE YOUR DAMN BICYCLE PEOPLE ITS A NO BRAINER >saves thousands a year and is virutally non polluting PLUS >>> CHICKS DIG TIGHT BUTTS

[glenisah]

I like the concept but I can't get my head around how you are turning rotational work into heat to boil the water.

Unless it is like the instant steam idea with all the cavitation holes in a rotating drum.

Cool

[UBERKron]

i think it is vacuum assisted cavitation boiler.these can crank out the heat but in a cold way. check out my bike vid.

[giant648]

um use a pressure cooker for a distiller i do and get like 10 gallons of pure clean water that came from my rain roof collector. ur invention is great but in survival situations this gives of more moisture than water so sorry not the greatest

[rusnanerces]

wow

[rocketlonscher]

Drink beer. Piss into a solar still. No moving parts. (Unless the brews make you like all dancy and raucous.)

[atlanticus]

cool

[ajohnson]

Now hike it into the mountains lol

[JordanMaster22]

lol looked like that water was really steroids

[mylarjorgen]

maybe some diagrams would help the non-technical people understand that. Also, think about using free power to drive it such as a water-wheel or windmill.

[Avalikia]

So does this produce more water than the now tired and thirsty bicycle rider would consume?

[RaWarrior]

Exactly, I guarantee the "rider" sweats out a lot more water than the device produces.

Except for the water carrying bike, all these "innovations" seem utterly pointless.

[metobeque]

But.... ahm.... he's making distillate water... u can use it to whatever u need in chemistry... such as making mecinies and stuff. I don't think the main objective is to purify water for drinking

[beyondmp3]

It's definitely a close one. We can produce a full cup of water in about half an hour of all out pedaling - it might only break even with sweat loss.

[redtortoise76]

one cup of water for 1/2 hour of hard pedaling? That doesn't even come close to replenishing what the cyclist loses. Ingenios but not practical. For a school project should be ok.

[firedude201234]

well not very practical but great idea.... we need more people like you guys in this world:)

[SCENARIOBABY]

good my name charles woody full name i want to know how to create your water distill watertreatmentaround dot info thanks

[keetonbob]

*sigh* You couldn't say "Generic polycarbonate water bottle" could you. Ya had to say Nalgene. Oh well, Nalgenes kick ass!

[beyondmp3]

Haha you are exactly right. It's becoming one of those ubiquitous brand names like Kleenex.

[Kingzoid]

This is a good idea in concept, although I am a little worried about the entropy issues involved.

[beyondmp3]

There are definitely some losses here - we found that most of the loss occurs in heat. When we insulated the boiling chamber well, our production about doubled. But we did avoid the conversion from mechanical to electrical energy, which some other groups did not. I think that reduces output pretty severely.

[Phaethon0]

Well done you found a way for people in third countries to get clean drinking water. You also found a way to motivate people in america to exercise.

[beyondmp3]

Thanks a lot.

[kindrixxx]

@Phaethon0

yeah good idea bikes for africa!! its one of the most sun drenched places on the planet make them pedal bikes and sweat 3 times more than they produce

[somalipal]

@Phaethon0 I would use filters n force the water thru using pedal power, u can filter 20litres in 30 minutes that way. But your system is slow and inefficient.