they transform donated bicycles into pedal-powered machines including water pumps, blenders and tile makers for use where electricity is too expensive or inaccessible. We say more (pedal ...

There, he introduced the locals to his bicibomba movil, a mobile bicycle-powered water pump. Now ... movil was introduced with the help of Maya Pedal, a local organization that champions pedal ...

An innovative bicycle-powered water pump, created by a student in the UK ... distribution -- by working with the Guatemalan NGO Maya Pedal, who design and build a variety of weird and wonderful ...

As the rider pedals, the peristaltic pump pulls the water from the large tank ... of the Grand Prize in the “Innovate or Die” Pedal-Powered Machine Contest. The competition sponsored by ...

and how to use the pedal-produced energy to run a bicycle-powered water pump. In future issues we’ll consider other applications for this basic unit from electrical generation to power-tool ...

CycloClean is a Japanese designed bike which purifies water with pedal-power ... and the pedals now power a pump. Water is forced through a primary filter before moving on to an activated carbon ...

Winner of the ’08 Innovate or Die competition sponsored by Google and Specialized, the Aquaduct is “a pedal-powered concept ... driven peristaltic pump to drive water from its trunk through ...

Inventors are constantly coming up with clever ideas to harness the power created by bikes ... The energy generated activates a pressure pump that propels water through the bike's multi-unit ...

all you need is your leg power to produce clean drinking water,” Yuichi Katsuura, president of Nippon Basic Co. said on Thursday as he introduced the system. Cycloclean needs only manpower to turn a ...

"If you can bike to a river, pond, pool or other sources of water, all you need is your leg power to produce clean ... a bike chain driving a motor to pump water through a series of filters ...