A Swedish company is using the ideas of a twentieth century Austrian forestry expert named Viktor Schauberger about water flow through trout gills to manufacture water purification devices. Schauberger was an early environmentalist, and his theories about "self-organizing water flow" met with a lot of skepticism in his day, but Watreco, based in Malmo, Sweden, now makes a chemical-free Vortex Generator based on the same fluid dynamics that a trout uses to trap and expel water. Michael Kallenos writes about it on GreenTechMedia.com. "Water gets poured in the top of the generator, swirls through an ever-tightening coil of channels, and then spits out the other end fleeced of harmful chemicals and microbes. Water mixed with coffee grounds? Toilet water? It comes out clear."
New Purifier Based on Water's Behavior in Trout Gills
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