Bicycle Powered Water Pump and Sand Filter

[happinesson]

Nice presentation for a work of a genius! Nice invention.

[lateraldeano]

drink the water love. DRINK IT!

[aaronpetersutherland]

Using a bicycle lets you draw water from further away. If it gets hard to pump, you can shift the gear ratio. Nicely done. Cost effective, easy to produce and ecologically sound.

Nice presentation as well. You're photogenic.

[jonboda]

minta!

[zekehooper]

she's cute. good idea.

[PrestoWind]

Great job Emily.

[2skullscrushing]

The blue barrels arent safe for water. you have to use white. other wise its great.

[dadigitechman]

Nice lathe!

[gelflingfaysuzanne]

i totally love this this is great! i want you to make me one! and you get great exercise!

[gelflingfaysuzanne]

i totally love this this is great! i want you to make me one!

[shabbah4life]

How much lift would this produce? The wells that i am thinking about on a farm in Mozambique are about 25-50 feet deep.

[shabbah4life]

How much lift would this produce? The wells that i am thinking about on a farm in mozambique are about 25-50 feet deep.

[MrB0TT]

Great, lets make to world population go from 6 billion people to 20 billion people within a decade.

[DominickBlack]

Very nice!!!

[BooKittyRadley]

What specific type of water pump dod you use?

I soooo want to build this.

[ben58ben58]

good girl 

[pakalas06]

How do you make the pump?

[boatbrain2]

I'm curious about the details of the pump itself, the video seems to show a plastic cylinder going up and down in a bucket, not a piston moving in a cylinder. Can you give some info on the pump?

[mikesglider]

do you have an idea how many GPHour? I know an hour would be boring but....just asking...

[paulinposada]

Hello Emmily!

Good idea. Would like to build the part of the pump (not the filter) at the school I'm working. Have you published any instructions?

Paulino

[gigglingwizard]

Is there anything you could point me to that details how to make the pump itself? I get the handle attached to the bike, the sand filter, etc. It's the PVC portion I'm interested in.

I'm looking for a cheap, simple way to build hand-powered pumps for a community garden that will move water from rain barrels through 100-200 feet of garden hose and uphill a few feet. I'm curious about your design, as I didn't see a piston sliding.

[SpencahD]

@gigglingwizard

Plunge pump... one way valve repeatedly 'plunged' with a pipe to duct...

experiment with a straw, you'll figure it out :)

[jimbob3514]

Mmmnn not bad, is the flow rate more than 213 Hedge hogs per hour?

[maxxximuss1]

not even americans have education and the type of filtration you are using is been for a long time in developing countries....thanks for the effort, good look

[SpencahD]

@maxxximuss1

You're an ass.

[maxxximuss1]

@SpencahD get an education then post your comments later..

[SpencahD]

J'en suis desole, est-ce que je vous ai offender?

O en espanol? Oder deutch? Arabee? Hevrit?

Your incoherent comment about 'not even americans have education'... Did you miss grammar?

Still an ass. This girl tries to do the world a favor and you illiterately bash americans. wonder where your food comes from.

You are still an ass. An arrogant and ignorant one at that.

Ivy leaguer aren't you.

[maxxximuss1]

@SpencahD still..go get some education...read book or somethig..creep!

[maxxximuss1]

@maxxximuss1 stiil..go get some education...read a book or something..creep!

[Albalan0779]

One little niggle here, that is i believe the sand filter has to be renewed periodically to ensure against bacterial contamination, having said that, have you heard of the anti bacterial properties of Silver there are ceramic filters which have a form of silver in the material itself which works very well.

[SpencahD]

@Albalan0779

silver sucks, copper ruins the electron transport of the cellular action... much better for what you say

[edvac1]

Awesome!

[quantumsolutions]

Love it!!

[annie46664]

Hi!

PLEASE place a VIDEO response to the following clip/s with this video of yours!

I'd do it myself ~ if I knew how to.

LOVE YOUR DEDICATION to humanity!

Thank you & bless you & yours,

~@nnie~ South Africa

A World Without Water 1/8

/watch?v=VkkD3yDBJxw

[quantumsolutions]

@annie46664 Thank you for sending this. I really needed this as I may be building one myself soon.

Also, i wanted to rig up a washing machine to a bicycle so this is very helpful.

Yes, women need to take their turn in solving this world's problems, indeed. Hey, maybe that's why women have been cleaning for millenia----practice for the GIGANTIC mess we're in. ha ha.

[wandercrones]

We live off the grid in Mexico part of the year in a solar community. This is a fabulous idea. Thanks so much for sharing it with everyone! And, given that water is going to be the number one issue we'll all be facing soon...how appropriate! Thanks, again!

[n4120p]

And please don't take my comment in any but a constructive way, I have created and tryed many things in my life and experience tell me that in any invention you have to be able to contenplate the political insertion aspect almost as abligatory as the physical laws or else nothing ever happens. I hope we can have mor e girls like you, congratulations again and keep creating. Ernest.

[n4120p]

Hi Emmily, great job I admire people with iniciative and brain like you show here, and perhaps your good intentions as well , but you are missing some political aspect in the ecuation, people in 3rd world countries need real cheap energy indeed not a way to use more of their very scarce human power which they already have dedicated in good part to transport themselves, so here your approach don't bring muchof a solution rather more exertion, try to move your water like this and you will know.

[annie46664]

n3129p ~ Trust me (living in a so-called 3rd world country) ~ peddling a bicycle is far safer & more enjoyable than walking anywhere ~BUT ~Emily's ingenious & innovative idea is on how to cleanse the water ALREADY at ones home. So ~now we need others to assist on how to EASILY & cost effectively, GET THE WATER THERE in the first place! If my people have to cycle (a luxury most don't have though), trust me, they'll do it with enough enthusiasm & gratitude to melt the toughest, coldest heart!

~@~

[SpencahD]

@annie46664

The plunge pump, a wind driven piston, bamboo and some thought.

[zenrainman]

Great work, roll it put in the real world say I

[nametakenuse]

This world, if defined as Humans and their technology, is not worth saving. A Plethora of contraptions exist to do this or that task, not one of which eradicates Human greed of money or lust for power. When backed by the force of governance these same murdered hundreds of millions of people through starvation, disease and war in the 20th century alone. The 21st century promises nothing better except to add Human initiated planet-sized ecological disaster into the deadly mix.

[shotsfired99]

geez this dude has some serious conspiracy issues...lmfao

[thegoodlifefarm]

Any interest in submitting a video that details the construction?  Looks like a good concept, perhaps you could elaborate on how the pump functions and what is involved in the filtration system.

Thanks

[yellOWW1192]

great job! but could u tell me how to make e pump? i really need to know for my project. Also, how do u clean e filter?

[eden1grapes]

Young lady, I am proud of you. Well done. could I use this in my farm? do you have any alteration, instead of bicycle or elcetric? What is the cost of this machine?

[chillysdad]

Sediment filters don't remove bacteria. Make it more efficient by adding an electric producing mechanism on the other side to counter balance the work load and that electricity can in turn be used to power a uv stearalizer. Then you're talking.

[royce2u]

Most of the clips dont explain that a correctly built bio-sand filter does far more than filter the dirt. It functions by creating a culture of good bacteria that feeds on the infectious bacteria. It takes two to three weeks for this predatory culture to become effective.

[letruthspeaker]

Exhilirating!!!!

[bull9stud]

good job. keep up the good work. the world need people like you. best regards.. from Iraq..El Toro.وطن حر وشعب سعيد

[malanduye]

on behalf of millions of children's early death your invention will prevent, I say thank you and for your smile it's an added blessing

[Sonyoooo3]

Do you do garrage sale?

[therealFranzpan]

Good idea and video, any info on how to build it?

[feneve]

The world needs good ideas. Thanks!

[robot5784]

awesome! This Would be convenient for some less-advanced people!

[steve89z]

exc!

[balackjack42]

Excellent. And I like your smile.

[rhoula]

I wish i could give you more than 5 stars.

I think tat you should have cut your video to many parts so you won't have to redo it every time you make a mistake.

But overall it was great.

I just subscribed to your videos please subscribe to mine.

Thank you

[BillOReillySux]

Nicely done there Emily.

I like the idea of utilizing a bicycle, but how about using a 'stairmaster' mechanism (as simple levers), instead? That might be a simpler mechanical solution, eh?

Keep up the good work!

[only512]

While that might be a simpler solution, the contest for Specialized required the use of pedal power. And, I think it might be easier to come up with a bicycle set up in a third world country than a stair master. I could be wrong though. My purpose for the bike was to use something that could be fairly easy to come by and fix if there were ever any problems. At least with a bike, the owner might have some clue on how to work on the bike without making up a completely new mechanism.

[BillOReillySux]

Your point is well taken.

I didn't realize pedal power was a criteria.

P.S. - Really enjoyed your video.

[mitc0185]

Great job Emily!

I'll bet you could scale that system up quite a bit by taking advantage of the bicycle's gearing system, and using a higher flow-velocity pump.

I wonder how long you'd need to ride the steed in order to get a day's or week's worth of water for a typical household... Probably not more than an hour.

Pretty cool!

[Rifleraven]

I like that everything is fully contained. On some other filtration systems I've seen, the water is going into a cup.. if you are in a third world country.. who's to say what can get back in?

[desertblbuesman]

very nice video and a great natural cleaning technique. Thanks

[Leetah36]

pretty brilliant...using good bacteria to eat bad bacteria-! Never would've thought of that...

[only512]

It is a good idea, but I definitely can't take credit for it. There is lots of information and research out there for the implementation of slow sand filters.

[techintoledo]

Great idea but does it clean out bacteria?

[only512]

On top of the sand, a layer called "schmutzedecke" (German for "dirty skin") eventually forms. It's basically the good bacteria eating all the bad bacteria. It has to be skimmed off and started over periodically. As the water travels down, the bacteria is the biological cleaning agent, and the sand is the physical agent that traps particles.

[teague03]

Neat -- very practical.

[JohnnyOhio]

Very cool. I really like the fact you detach your bike and ride easily.

Peace...J.O...