The only difference between this water distiller and just boiling water is the amount of electricity required.
Right now all three presidential candidates are favor of a cap-and-trade system. There is something like a 90% chance of having that enacted within the next 18-24 months. According to John Doerr, once we get a cap-and-trade system solar will become cost competitive with coal within two years.
So while this specific device is certainly cool, the upcoming trillion dollar energy revolution is going to have a far greater impact on the ability for developing nations to have clean water than any single device.
Are you sure? Do you know how this machine works? There is significantly more to distillation than just boiling. Conventional boiling only deals with microbes, chemicals, such as salt, require full distillation, so if this really is a genuine distillation machine, it is significantly more useful than boiling water (which requires a lot of energy to do on a mass scale.)
I think they could be used together. If the technology is applicable and useful, just because there are other avenues opening up doesn't mean we should discount this one simply because the -potential- for something greater is there.
Right now all three presidential candidates are favor of a cap-and-trade system. There is something like a 90% chance of having that enacted within the next 18-24 months. According to John Doerr, once we get a cap-and-trade system solar will become cost competitive with coal within two years.
So while this specific device is certainly cool, the upcoming trillion dollar energy revolution is going to have a far greater impact on the ability for developing nations to have clean water than any single device.