I lost my dial up connection just as this thread was hot and heavy and I wanted to revisit it now that HARPO has the looset purse strings on the planet.,


I had left off with Dean Kamen.

The Techo Stud who refined that stupid engine -Stirling is the name- You know, the one that makes eleck-trcity off of Methane/Poop fumes at night and makes clean drinking water during the day...

In a Sundance Channel special he invited Isabella Rossellini to his home and showed her his invention. It was a wonderful look into his operation. Without the pompous guests, doctors and phone number for tickets to his show!


The gist of the convo was that people are dying becuse of the lack of clean water.


A machine like that will purify water so that it can be used for drinking and irrigating crops....Funny how a little fecal matter in water can ruin a whole village's outlook!

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Kamen went on to stae that politics is the main reason that his refined engine is not being shipped to areas that need it!

It's way too expensive for Kamen to donate machines to every area that needs them, and the governments are way too crooked to let those machines go to the people..

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A few Sterling/Kamen engines would be far more practical in some areas than a 150 person school.


But hey, Dysentery, explosive diarrhea, starvation and E coli are not as important as education.


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When the coup, junta or other civil problem breaks out I wonder which buildings will be plundered by the 'have nots'?


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I apologize to you all that have no patience for my opinions.


I do respect yours!

Going back to bed now!

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BTW,

LH, Where is your sense of helicopter adventure?

It's not like the chopper was burning the whole 50 gallons in one trip!