Our team provides an affordable, family-size, bicycle-based invention for desalinating brackish (salty) water to provide drinking water for developing communities.
Our tagline: "From Saltwater to Freshwater as you Pedal Home."
Team H2O has successfully filed a provisional application for patent with the US Patent and Trademark Office for our H2O invention, which consists of the H2OWheel and H2OSolarStill.
This provisional application provides us 12 months of protection to c
Our team provides an affordable, family-size, bicycle-based invention for desalinating brackish (salty) water to provide drinking water for developing communities.
Our tagline: "From Saltwater to Freshwater as you Pedal Home."
Team H2O has designed a low-cost, human-powered, bicycle-based water desalinator to address one of the biggest problems facing all humanity: scarcity of clean drinking water. It does what the vast majority of water purifiers cannot do, remove salt from br...
Fabian Fernandez-Han: Team H2O has successfully filed a provisional application for patent with the US Patent and Trademark Office for our H2O invention, which consists of the H2OWheel and H2OSolarStill.
This provisional application provides us 12 months of protection to consider filing a non-provisional patent application.
As the Finalist package indicated, filing a provisional application for patent is worth considering for finalist teams headed for the Innovation Summit.
Additional info is available here: http://www.uspto.gov/patents/process/index.jsp ... moreTeam H2O has successfully filed a provisional application for patent with the US Patent and Trademark Office for our H2O invention, which consists of the H2OWheel and H2OSolarStill.
This provisional application provides us 12 months of protection to consider filing a non-provisional patent application.
As the Finalist package indicated, filing a provisional application for patent is worth considering for finalist teams headed for the Innovation Summit.
Fabian Fernandez-Han: Why Team H2O's human-powered, low-cost, bicycle-based desalinator of brackish water makes sense.
Here is a "Google Solve for X" talk on why we cannot depend on conservation of freshwater (due to population growth and increase in standard of... moreWhy Team H2O's human-powered, low-cost, bicycle-based desalinator of brackish water makes sense.
Here is a "Google Solve for X" talk on why we cannot depend on conservation of freshwater (due to population growth and increase in standard of living across the globe) but that we need desalination of brackish water and why the desalination technology should not depend on fossil fuels. The H2O device desalinates without using fossil fuels; it is human-powered.
Solve for X is a forum to encourage and amplify technology-based moonshot thinking and teamwork. http://www.wesolveforx.com http://goo.gl/T3qQo
Global water scarcity presents a grave challenge to continued human development and sustainability. The answ...
In our family, we average approx. 100 liters per person each day. How about yours? You can calculate yours at this website: http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/sq3.html
Fabian Fernandez-Han
(owner)
Good luck to all the 15 Finalists for the Spirit of Innovation Challenge. You have all worked hard to get this far. We appreciate your spirit of innovation and service to the community. We look forward to meeting you later this month in San Francisco and learning from you about your product/service.
Team H2O has successfully filed a provisional application for patent with the US Patent and Trademark Office for our H2O invention, which consists of the H2OWheel and H2OSolarStill.
This provisional application provides us 12 months of protection to c
Predictions
By 2025, 1800 million people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world population could be under stress conditions; Water withdrawals are predicted to increase by 50 percent by 2025 in de
Nippon Basic from Japan created the Cycloclean,a bicycle-based water purification device. See: http://planetgreen.discovery.com/travel-outdoors/cycloclean-pedal-your-way-to-clean-drinkable-water.html It costs approximately $6,700 USD. It takes freshwater
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