14 - year - old New York student Deepika Kurup was named «America's Top Young Scientist» for inventing a solar -
powered water purification system that changes dirty water into safe drinking water.
There are a variety of different solutions for enabling people in water poverty to obtain access to clean drinking water, from personal devices that don't require power to solar stills, but the Solar Wagon, from Water One World Solutions, offers a self - contained and self -
powered water purification system on wheels.
Not exact matches
These results can serve as the foundation of future research on the wide range of possible applications involving microfluidic processes such as
water purification and self -
powered drug delivery
systems.
They won a grant from the Lemelson - MIT Program to develop a lightweight, portable disaster relief shelter, designed to be complete with a
water purification system and a renewable energy source to
power an LED light, which could be used after disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, or tornadoes to house people who have been displaced.
The ad is part of GE's «ecomagination» campaign to promote «green» products such as lower - energy houses, wind turbines, solar
power and
water -
purification systems, as well as a range of new coal technologies.
Some of the companies working on incorporating biomimicry into design are: Calera (biomineralization) Novomer (CO2 into biodegradable plastics) Dyesol (solar cells) Qualcomm (display screens) WhalePower (wind turbines) BioPower (wave
power) Purebond (bonding
systems) Regen Energy (energy solutions) Qinetiq (
water harvesting) Grimshaw (architecture) Aquaporin (
water purification) PAXwater (flow forms) Cambridge Biostability (preservation) Biosignal (antibacterial methods) The Land Institute (agriculture
systems)