The Watercone® is a solar powered water desalinator that takes salt or brackish water and generates freshwater. It is simple to use, lightweight and mobile. The technology is simple in design and use and is described by easy to understand pictograms. With max. 1,6 liters a day the Watercone® is an ideal device to cover a childs daily need of freshwater. UNICEF: "every day 5000 children die as a result of diarrhea coused by drinking unsafe water"
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I am going to do this on a larger scale. massive facilities
genius
What about mildew buildup in the water collector?
I just got a portable UV light that runs on batteries and will purify a 12oz+ bottle of water in 90 seconds. There is also a new screened filter being sold in African(&S.America) poor countries that has collidal silver as a bacteria killer.
I almost expect my “good ol’ USA plastics to be harmful, after all big money/business can push about anything it wants through.
How about blown glass! That solves the problem, and it also seem there could be a better design with weep holes in the bottom “rim” that lets the water run down into a containment tank. Thanks for the vid!!!
@linhh82 I prefer my urine neat.
mas production is simple as well. Ho much wiskey of burbon etc. is produced in a day? These use the same process, so why should it be harder??? Arrogant? Maybe, but when I look at how stupid people have become to being able to care for & provide for themselves I think I have every reason to be. No innovation is the sign of a lower animal lifeform like a cow or such. Innovation is what separates Humans from the other animals on this planet.
Nothing new about it under the sun, except the ability to easily mass produce this product, and possibly get it to undereducated people who are unable to think of a solution to their problem because they are underfed and dehydrated.
It is a new problem to them, and they are used to doing things the same old way, and not used to innovating.
You may not be aware of how your tone in this comment displays your arrogance.
So, any ideas on how to remove pthylates from the desalinated seawater? Any information on what levels would be in the water?
And why do you suspect pthylate, which is used to SOFTEN Polyvinyl Chloride, would be a contaminate from a Polycarbonate product? Some polycarbonates do leech Bisphenyl A – mostly those made in the good old US of A until very recently. European producers of Polycarbonates developed processes that removed this contaminant years ago. Check your assumptions, people.
Good point – mere desalination cannot be the only requirement for potable water.
thats great and no doubt the guy drinking that water has probably had his prostate gland cored out due to the incredibly high levels of pthylates
Smart simple and cheap…it’ll never work. What we need is a complex and expensive system that is impossible to achieve but which will keep an army of experts employed and is based on ideas using social engineering for a brave new world.
I’m joking, of course, but the fact that a billion of these haven’t been already distributed to areas where there is a crushing need, yet we know the names of Tiger Woods’ alleged paramours says much about the world in which we live.
I wish them well.
Distilling has been around since the beginning of time. What people in need of clean water must have is a means to use the knowledge and some device to give them access to the water. Now they have one. Wasn’t that obvious enough?
You could also used urine for this as well.
The British SAS used this method in the desert.
Ok, so whats so new about making sea water drinkable? I know of at least 2 different ways to obtain this miracle. One is a plain old still, like make ALCOHOL (also creates salt). Or the old school Solar Still made of plastic sheeting, a rock, a water container, a hole in the sand near high tide line, and SUN… Doesn’t seem so new an idea other then the gadget used.
During WW II american aircraft pilots already had a similar device to desalinate water. Of course the design was not so good, and the materials was diferent, but the brightness of the idea is the same.
well put it this way;a gold medal from the industrial designer society of america competition! this puts to shame that pile of shit “american inventor” series…did you ever see that pile of shit “guardian angel” thing?…i searched this up because i read about a guy who was lost at sea and survived on a raft using a salt water distillation device and wanted to find out more. in the desert with a horse with no name,you could recycle your piss possibly…endless uttlility bravo sir!
Good question — Can passing current through water improve its rate of evaporation? Enough current will electrolyze water causing dissociation of h and o atoms…. I would think that any amount of current would reduce surface tension at minimum
Very good idea but can we design a solar powered to get more drink water
Use soap for that bro.
Here’s some advice for you, ojsdaddy: If you’re stupid, it’s best not to post comments…
Its to desalinate not sanitize smart guy.
good idea, but needs a bit more engineering:
- this thing makes 6 glasses of water a day, it’s not enough even for 1 person. a mirror would help
- it’s way to easy to contaminate the cone with dirty water
The problem with this is that people have to have an understanding of “germ theory” to use it. If any “bad” or “lake water” ever touches the collection area of the top, then your distillation to prevent disease has failed.
why didnt i think of that, a big frisbee with a cover .