Energy & Water from Waste - Visioneering 2011 - X PRIZE Foundation

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VOTE on your favorite prize concept! http://xprize.org/visioneering-workshop-2011


Our world desperately lacks basic, yet critical resources. More than one billion humans lack access to clean drinking water. Two billion—almost one in every three people on the planet—do not have adequate sanitation facilities or electricity. Yet, half the world's population or nearly three billion people live on less than two dollars a day, and, therefore, cannot sufficiently access water or power.

Although poverty is considered as more of a systems problem—socially and politically—rather than a technological challenge, innovative technologies can be used to address poverty in order to dramatically benefit the developing world.

The Village Utility X PRIZE is intended to drive innovation by using organic waste to provide clean drinking water and renewable power to communities in the developing world on a cost-efficient, clean and decentralized basis. Using renewable, organic waste to provide these basic needs will also enable entrepreneurs to build local economies around water and power. Furthermore, this integrated system will generate constructive local externalities, such as improved education, enhanced health care, and sustained ecologies.

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About the X PRIZE Foundation
http://xprize.org

The X PRIZE Foundation is an educational (501c3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to bring about radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity, thereby inspiring the formation of new industries and the revitalization of markets that are currently stuck due to existing failures or a commonly held belief that a solution is not possible. The foundation addresses the world's Grand Challenges by creating and managing large-scale, high-profile, incentivized prize competitions that stimulate investment in research and development worth far more than the prize itself. It motivates and inspires brilliant innovators from all disciplines to leverage their intellectual and financial capital.


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Producer: Larry Herbst - http://EarthLightCommunications.com
Cinematographer: Larry Herbst
Cinematographer: Blanka Buic
Editor: Larry Herbst
Social Media Optimization: Damien Somerset - http://DamienSomerset.com

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  • I voted for you-- what a great idea.

    chilichickSantaFe 8 months ago

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