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Zorba9 · 07-17-2011, 09:57 AM

Hi Guys,

Does anyone here know the current (2011) status of Dean Kamens Sterling generator?? The last I remember hearing around 4 or 5 years ago was that Dean had licensed some group to produce & market them with profits going towards giving many away to impoverished regions of the world where there is absolutely no clean water for people to drink. (In some areas folks will walk 30 miles a day to carry clean drinking water home to their villages).

For those who haven't heard of Deans' Sterling generator, one of Dean Kamens neatest inventions is a self-contained, portable electric generator. You start a fire under one end of it with wood, coal, propane....whatever and the "Sterling generator" (after its original inventor) which is an enclosed pressured gas system that when heated turns a turbine, which in turn Dean Kamen hooked an electrical generator to provide power to impoverished areas of the world. A totelly unforseen by-product of the heated turbine was the fact that as it cooled & ran & cooled & ran it produced distilled water which drained out of the machine. This invention of Deans' makes FRESH water!!
The whole unit is about the size of a normal portable generater that many of us have in our garages and shops at home, VERY KOOL and is a world changing proposition.

07-17-2011, 09:57 AM	#1
Zorba9 Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Oxford, Mississippi, . Posts: 1,084	Dean Kamens Sterling Generator Hi Guys, Does anyone here know the current (2011) status of Dean Kamens Sterling generator?? The last I remember hearing around 4 or 5 years ago was that Dean had licensed some group to produce & market them with profits going towards giving many away to impoverished regions of the world where there is absolutely no clean water for people to drink. (In some areas folks will walk 30 miles a day to carry clean drinking water home to their villages). For those who haven't heard of Deans' Sterling generator, one of Dean Kamens neatest inventions is a self-contained, portable electric generator. You start a fire under one end of it with wood, coal, propane....whatever and the "Sterling generator" (after its original inventor) which is an enclosed pressured gas system that when heated turns a turbine, which in turn Dean Kamen hooked an electrical generator to provide power to impoverished areas of the world. A totelly unforseen by-product of the heated turbine was the fact that as it cooled & ran & cooled & ran it produced distilled water which drained out of the machine. This invention of Deans' makes FRESH water!! The whole unit is about the size of a normal portable generater that many of us have in our garages and shops at home, VERY KOOL and is a world changing proposition. __________________ Zorba9.....