It can produce more than 75,000 liters of clean drinking water per day, generate electricity and produce medical grade oxygen. It’s called the Hydra and the team of scientists behind it say it will change the face of disaster relief.
It provides virus-free drinking water. It provides power in the storage of hydrogen and it provides renewable energy in the storage of solar energy from the solar panels.
Hydrogen runs on a self-contained cycle of clean renewable energy. The solar panels harness energy that powers the system, accesses energy then goes into charging batteries and producing hydrogen power. That energy in return keeps the system running at night and on cloudy days. Hydrogen water purification system uses two separate purification units that filter out bacteria and several viruses. All of these elements combined to make hydra a powerful tool in disaster zones like Haiti after a massive earthquake that millions of people without clean water and electricity.
Hydra’s inventors say the machine can play an important role in third world countries. According to Water.org, a non-profit that analyses global water issues one in eight people on the planet don’t have access to clean drinking water. And every year 3.5 million people die of water-related diseases. The price tag on a Hydra unit 95,000 dollars. Its developers say it’s a small price to pay for the amount of good it can do.
Ben Gruber,Reuters.
