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The Element Four Watermill – The Future Is Smiling

It’s time to stare water purification right in its cute robotic face.  Element Four has come up with the solution to water shortages worldwide with its Watermill.  It may look like a set of speakers, but in reality it is an elegant piece of technology which can save you money while you’re helping to save the world.

The Watermill extracts water from humid air and, through ultraviolet sterilization, is capable of turning it into a potable beverage that is actually cleaner than spring water.  It is extremely unobtrusive, or at least you can be sure you won’t notice it when you’re sitting down in your living room, because it is designed to be mounted on the outside of your house.  According to Element Four the inside of your home is 70% more polluted than the outside air, and the UV sterilization can handle the smog of city life without issue.  If you ever suffered from breathing the dry air your old dehumidifier left behind, this is probably a plus.

Element Four designed the Watermill to minimize power consumption.  It automatically checks the dew point every three minutes and makes sure to operate consistently just below it, which is a large part of why it can extract a liter of water from the air for about three cents.  It can also hook up to your existing water sources like your fridge dispenser or kitchen sink if you want it to, or else you can use special Element Four Watermill distribution sources.  Put these two features together and you should have drinking water available throughout your house just as you did before, except at a tiny fraction of the cost.  If you’re worried about volume, the 12 liters (3.2 gallons) of water which the Windmill can extract daily should amply sate a family of six.

The Element Four Windmill is a way to be green and save green, as you will be reducing waste from plastic bottles or jugs as well as reducing your water bill.  In mid 2009 a wind/solar powered version should become available to make it even greener, but for now it’ll run off the grid.  It will be available for sale beginning in February, and Element Four has big plans for this device.  We can’t wait to see it become widely used in the future.

Find it here: Elementfour.com

This new Mac Book looks great, mix the Mac Book green with pro and make it small (13″ width, widescreen would be nice) and it could be my next computer.

It’s a good thing the economy is the way it is though, because there is no mention of this machine on Apple.com whatsoever. Or any sign of it being purchasable in the near future. No “Froogle” or news jumps out at me. (And I’m demanding and require that for it to count as marketed.)

The worst thing is that Apple.com’s search doesn’t make any sense, they promote random movies when I search for what should be Apple products. Is this some lame iTunes tie-in? That’s just what it is, lame.

Add a page for every product and/or ad you serve to TV Apple, god, I thought you were smarter than that!

At least(???) we can enjoy the above ad, but it’s kind of like the fairy tale that is the rest of our hopes for bettering our planet. It’s not like I don’t trust Barack Obama, it’s just that well, it’s lame duck season, and unfortunately that doesn’t mean hunting.

A foot note, kudos to YouTube for their new video embed. Not only does it work well with WordPress, but it matches almost any site, which is so tempting now that there are so many other embeddable video sites! I just wish the Google affiliation with it could fit into my layouts (sidebars) like these vids do my posts!! (However we can go straight to YouTube to get Google code for single videos or multiples, so although it won’t fit most sidebars, it’s a great step!) (Of course, getting revenue from embedding YouTube videos into posts is also huge incentive!)

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