The CycloClean from Nippon Basic

CycloClean is a Japanese designed bike that purifies water with pedal-power. Aimed at a developing universe, a bike can suck up, dumpy purify as well as then store water from flattering most any source. Then all you need to do is ride home.

It functions like this. You park up subsequent to a muddy stream or dubious seeking lake. Lower a hose into the h2o, hitch a bike up on the stand, and stand back on. The back circle is kept off the ground, and the pedals now energy a siphon. Water is forced by a first filter prior to moving on to an activated carbon filter, similar to the one you may have in a Brita jug during home. Finally, the water passes through the “micro-filtration membrane filter” before being stored in a vessel of your preference.

The CycloClean can routine three tons of h2o in ten hours (you might wish to take turns roving it). That’s enough to supply 1,500 people for one day. some smaller figure may be easier to understand: you’ll get 5 liter (1.3 gallons) in the notation. Filters should final for up to two years.

The bikes have already been deployed by a maker, Nippon Basic, from Kawasaki, outward Tokyo. They cost ¥550,000 each. That’s around $6,650. As you can see, they’re not starting to be offered to residents, though the association has shifted 200 of them in 5 years. The bikes themselves have been made to last, with non-puncture tires as well as redundancies so that you can still make use of the bike for travel or pumping when the filters have lapsed, for e.g., and one great make use of for this stout beast is on a ground at disaster sites.

I love it (except the cost. Not just since it will save lives as well as infer the money-spinner for some intelligent developing universe entrepreneur, though since it yet again shows how awesomely flexible bikes have been.

CycloClean product page [Nippon Basic around Physorg. Thanks, Chuck!]