2nd December
2009
This is our entry to Specialized and Google's "Innovate or Die" competition. It is a bicycle-powered water distillery. Using friction heat from a bicycle "fluid trainer", contaminated or unsafe water is boiled, and the vapor is condensed, making it fit to drink. Currently the design relies on "pedal power", but it could be easily coupled with solar power, wind power, or a paddle-wheel in running water to produce clean water on a larger scale. The design has two boiling chambers as shown, one ...
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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
well not very practical but great idea…. we need more people like you guys in this world:)
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
wow
Drink beer. Piss into a solar still. No moving parts. (Unless the brews make you like all dancy and raucous.)
cool
Now hike it into the mountains lol
lol looked like that water was really steroids
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.
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.
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.
Thanks a lot.
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.
Haha you are exactly right. It’s becoming one of those ubiquitous brand names like Kleenex.
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
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.
So does this produce more water than the now tired and thirsty bicycle rider would consume?
good my name charles woody full name i want to know how to create your water distill watertreatmentaround dot info thanks
*sigh* You couldn’t say “Generic polycarbonate water bottle” could you. Ya had to say Nalgene. Oh well, Nalgenes kick ass!
This is a good idea in concept, although I am a little worried about the entropy issues involved.
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.