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All Moonbats should be forcefully disconnected from the power grid and forced to bicycle for all their power (must also use mask to capture exhaled CO2). The battery used to store the power would be called the MOON-Battery.

I don't have any problem with greenies wasting their time on crap like this. Although I think their talents could be better used.

What I have a problem with is the arrogance and superiority of declaring that the third world targets for this bike are not allowed to have the same conveniences they have.

We have clean drinking water without using this bike. How do we get it? By means that third worlders are not ALLOWED to have by declaration of the intellectual lords of the earth. The chick declares that using motor vehicles to transport the water "consumes fuel and pollutes the air". I have a feeling she doesn't use this bike to draw water from a pond a few miles away and drive it to her dorm room.

I completely agree that access to clean water is one of the main problems in third world countries. But if you're going to devote time and energy and money to the problem, why not build wells near the village, install plumbing, build water filtration plants? Why not REALLY work on SOLVING the problems by showing them how they can have what we have?

Why not? Because that would defeat the purpose, which is to keep the little villagers in their little eco-habitat, frozen in time, so we can look at them like they're some kind of zoo animals. These people are not their friends, they're their keepers.

OT - US Congress flushed $89,000 of our money down the toilet buying "carbon offsets" right after the dems took office, from WaPo print edition today...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/27/AR2008012702400.html?sub=AR

... Some of the money went to farmers in North Dakota, for tilling practices that keep carbon buried in the soil. But some farmers were already doing this, for other reasons, before the House paid a cent.

Other funds went to Iowa, where a power plant had been temporarily rejiggered to burn more cleanly. But that test project had ended more than a year before the money arrived.

The offset purchase was part of a Green the Capitol initiative, begun after Democrats took over last year. House leaders bought compact fluorescent light bulbs to save energy and ordered the Capitol Power Plant to burn natural gas instead of dirtier coal. For emissions they couldn't avoid, they bought offsets: 30,000 metric tons at about $2.97 per metric ton.

(I assume "emissions the couldn't avoid" means Pelosi flying a 747 back and forth across the country 3 times a week).

This is actually a pretty good idea. Bikes and water filters would make life in the third world a lot better. However... who's going to pay for it? If someone doesn't have enough cash to buy electricity and a light bulb, how will they spend hundreds of dollars on a bike + expensive water filter?

Why do people still think coal powered plants are dirty? This isn't the 19th century where we toss the coal in the ol' furnace and the soot floats up into the air. I'd say Pelosi ought to use what energy sources we have while we have them instead of wasting time/money on meaningless political gestures.

The silliest thing about this contraption is the stationary mode. Why sit there and peddle a bike to pump water through a filter when gravity would work just as well? Just put the clean water contained below the dirty water container.

I guess liberals think third world people are too stupid to figure that out.

"Five moonbats will share a $5,000 prize for creating the Aquaduct bicycle"

$5000 will buy them alot of weed.

I wonder how many machetes the local warlord will receive for the truckload of water filtration bikes he confiscated from the villagers, before killing them.

WTF?! why do you need a bike to do the work of gravity?????

so basically there saying, its better to burn up food energy that most 3rd world countries are scarce on to begin with. release CO2 through breathing heavy, instead of attaching a bucket to a try letting it rain and using gravity run through a filter(which by the way is a consumable that somebody had to replace, which means truck deliveries and more wasted C02 from manufacturing)

OMG WTF?!

Question for the Goracle and his acolytes: How big of a carbon footprint is created by the making of the plastic (a petroleum product) that the bike is made from?

That said, I agree with NudeGay:

We have clean drinking water without using this bike. How do we get it? By means that third worlders are not ALLOWED to have by declaration of the intellectual lords of the earth. The chick declares that using motor vehicles to transport the water "consumes fuel and pollutes the air". I have a feeling she doesn't use this bike to draw water from a pond a few miles away and drive it to her dorm room.

Perfect.

NudeGayWhalesForJesus:

"Why do people still think coal powered plants are dirty?"

Yup! Wisconsin Electric is building a new power plant in my community. The new plant will produce twice the power at half the emissions as the old plant. Believe it or not, the opposition to the plant was led by the ceo of SC Johnson because we all know how environmentally friendly those cans of Raid are.

Yup - agree with a lot of the above posters.

Thanks to many all expense, no frills trips provided by the US Military, I have seen how the 3d world needy think. They are very practical problem solvers and resist much change.

Give them a bunch of these bikes. The man will do any number of things with it - other than carry and filter water. The woman will still do exactly what she has been doing in (insert any 3d world culture here) for 1,000s of years.

You could smuggle a lot of good stuff in one of those.............

After a couple of them detonate on command, they would be banned and scrapped.

I personally think this is a good idea. It is NOT for people in America but those who need water in Africa and have to travel long distances to get water. So instead of having to carry it back THEN filter it, they simply drive it home and it filters while they ride.

"It is NOT for people in America"

Good for thee but not for me.

If they moved to America and lived next door would they be allowed to have clean running water like the rest of us? Or would they be required to ride one of these from the duck pond? And if they're allowed to have running water here, why not in Africa?

I think we all agree about the problem, but differ on the solution. If anyone REALLY wants to help, and I mean help them better their lives by building wells, not making it easier for their lives to stay the same, here's a good organization that helps build wells around the world:

www.ryanswell.ca

This kid started raising money to build a well in a poor African village when he was six years old. Now he's 15 and travels the world speaking about his project and raising money to build more wells. He's built like over 300. Now that's doing something. The idea is to help them change the way they live for the better.

And if you really want to help them to help themselves, give them a local translation of Atlas Shrugged. (abridged version)

And if you really want to help them to help themselves, give them a local translation of Atlas Shrugged. (abridged version)

Hear, hear!

A translation of The Fountainhead too.

Building/digging a well - fully agree with. That is teaching them to fish and changing thier lives.

On an even better note, we could also send Jimmy Carter with a pail of nails and a hammer to build a cover for the well. Solve two problems at the same time. My apologies to his Detail.

Actually I think this contraption would be great for filtering moonshine on your trip back home from the distillery.

Coincidentally, The People's Cube is currently endorsing a baby-powered eco-device.

http://www.thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=1694

So what happens if it breaks? Can you repair it with items found around the house, or do you have to buy a completely new one? Does it come preassembled or in pieces? What language is the directions in? How does someone in the 3rd world reach you guys anyway? Furthermore, how do they even learn about you?

Another interesting invention thats not-so-interesting enough to actually be bought by people, with the exception of rich, guilt-ridden moonbats who also bought bamboo boxers and hemp pants.

I would, however, pay money to see the Goracle ride around on this thing for a few days. Work off that flab, fatty!

That bike is a joke. Most people searching daily for water dont live on a paved or even any type of improved road. A lot also live on hills as in Haiti.

It would be more productive handing out plastic jugs to transport water for people this poor.

I forgot to add this.

Clean water is a human right.

Sooo, when the filter gets clogged from all that filtering, where do they buy a new one?

Don't worry about them paying for the bike.
I guarantee you, we'll be buying it for them.

If clean water is a "human right", then why do we have to pay for it?

In what founding document, charter, or legislation is clean water deemed "a human right"? I don't recall reading anything about water (In any form) in FDR's "Four Freedoms" speach.

Everyone has a right to clean water or at least drinkable water. I never did say free delivered water. But I think most of us would give a drink to a man dying of thirst. Speaking of thirst, where is my beer Jimbo?

When I first saw this I thought the tank on top was for the dirty water and it would gravity drain through the filter to the clean water tank in the back. Having to pump water through a filter would add a lot of resistance to the pedals.

"Clean water is a human right."

At whose expense?

Parker,
It was me who offered to buy you a beer. You have to spit on Jimbo for it though.

Steve,

I was saying it in response to his silly posting and calling people dipshits and various vulgar things. But alas, you call anything I say back as reality.

Come on man be real, can I come over and call your wife a whore in church. I mean it would be legal, I mean I would only proclaim loudly with your approval as Jimbo wants this imaginary scene.

Of course no one would spit on someone. That was my point, I guess you lost that. And I did it for another point, online or real life insults do not make nice.

Oh, and where is my beer, Steve, lol.

Parker,
Don't try to portray yourself as a victim.
Jimbo isn't calling "people" (plural) dipshit. He's callling YOU a dipshit. It started in response to a threat you made.
I'm not married (I'm a widower) but if I was and you called my wife a whore you wouldn't call anyone anything until the doctor removed the wires from your jaw, legal or not. ( The USSC calls it "fighting words")
People DO spit on other people, as I know from experience, and you said you would spit on Jimbo if you ever met.
You don't appear to have a point at all. In fact, you don't appear to be capable of formulating a coherent train of thought.
You'll get your beer when you earn it, you pussy.

You didn't answer my question, either, Parker. Your post was an oppinion, or perhaps a DEMAND, but not an answer.

I wrote a message to you in a later topic (I read them from the newest to the oldest), in it I pointed out that you seem to be looking for trouble, no matter how you may deny it.

Steve, my sincerest apologies about your wife, I know I was making a stupid arguement (and I would never cross that line knowing this now). But I was trying to get real discussion. Jimbo is a bully, and it is insulting. I know for a fact if I met Jimbo in real life even after this bullshit he would probably be civil. Heck he would even buy me a beer.