17-02-2006, 13:42
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'Luzer'
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CNN Article about Dean and Slingshot
CNN has posted a great article about Dean Kamen's new sterling generator and water filtration system at http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/16/tech...0216/index.htm.
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"Eighty percent of all the diseases you could name would be wiped out if you just gave people clean water," says Kamen. "The water purifier makes 1,000 liters of clean water a day, and we don't care what goes into it. And the power generator makes a kilowatt off of anything that burns..."
Last year, Quadir took prototypes of Kamen's power machines to two villages in his home country for a six-month field trial. That trial, which ended last September, sold Quadir on the technology.
So much so in fact that Quadir's startup, Cambridge, Mass.-based Emergence Energy, is negotiating with Kamen's Deka Research and Development to license the technology. Quadir then hopes to raise $30 million in venture capital to start producing the power machines.
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