New invention.

Randallw · #1 April 26th, 2004, 05:09 AM

Just came across this story. Wasn't sure where to post it so I made a new thread.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4723367/

Interesting invention.

Slynky · #2 April 26th, 2004, 05:24 AM

Interesting (and strange). I'd like to see how it works on Bin Laden...

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Renegade 13 · #3 April 26th, 2004, 05:57 AM

Sounds like a load of sh** to me. But i'm a cynic.

Randallw · #4 April 26th, 2004, 06:03 AM

Speaking as an Australian I am especially interested in that mention of using it for De-salinisation.

Atrocities · #5 April 26th, 2004, 08:57 AM

My vote goes for load of horse s**t. Hell the article doesn't even really make sense if you read it at a glace so I sincerely doubt that it is real.

Most likely it was written by the guy who got fired from the post for making up crap.

Arkcon · #6 April 26th, 2004, 10:58 AM

Sure is a crappy article. There was something on /. recently. Some guy in Asia (Taiwan? Japan? I can't recall now) developed a much more efficient motor, using specially aligned permanant magnets.

Sometimes the news articles report it's 80% more efficient (is that so unbeliveable, I dunno), sometimes they say 0.2 more power or torque (pick one guys, they are not interchangeable), sometimes they say you get more power out than in, they really bury that Last comment.

Do they write crappy articles to hide flaws in journalistic research or cause the world has become progressively dumber? Meh. Waiting for /., someone will rip them apart. Even if true.

Slick · #7 April 26th, 2004, 11:06 AM

The article mentions reverse osmosis. Not sure why it mentions it, but it does. Reverse osmosis is real and it works great. I wonder what the author's point is.

Slick.

dogscoff · #8 April 26th, 2004, 12:08 PM

Just what we need- a cheaper and more efficient way to grinf up the bones and offal of animal carcasses and feed tham back to other animals.

BSE, foot & mouth- have we learned nothing?

freduk · #9 April 26th, 2004, 12:23 PM

I have also no idea why it mentions reversed osmosis. The machine has nothing to do with it.

Furthermore, the machine sucks. From what I get from the article, which I read haphazardly, it only grinds stuff, wow what an achievement.

And that it would produce more energy is also a joke, it simply grinds stuff, with leaves us with the same matter, only in smaller particles, but it has added a lot of hot air and other energy into it, which gives us a net energy loss.

President_Elect_Shang · #10 April 26th, 2004, 03:42 PM

Sounds like some kind of trick or miss-understanding by the reporter and possibly even deception by the inventor.

On the other hand according to the company website (History Page) testing was done at the University of Maryland so there might be some truth to the fact.

http://www.vortexdehydration.com/