Sherwood Schwartz, the brains behind one of my much beloved television shows, "Gilligan's Island," (okay pass judment on me if you must, but the show was truly brilliant) was a man ahead of his time. He dreamed up a fantastic power-generating bicycle-ish contraption featured in several episodes which, when pedaled created enough power to run the crude washing machine or power the transister radio that sometimes conveniently appeared during some episodes. It usually fell to poor Gilligan to be the slave on the bike, but I do remember one or two episodes where Mary Ann and Ginger each took a turn pedaling the bike in circles, but never, NEVER!, Mr. or Mrs. Howell, for heaven's sake!The whole notion of creating energy with a bicycle is so basic, yet so intelligent. Why hasn't anyone ever put this to good practical use? Well now it has happened. A group of students has come up with the dazzlingly simple but effective way of filtering water while riding a bike. Check out this video to see the perfect logic of the bike:
What do you think of Mr. Schwartz now? Genius. An absolute genius I tell you.
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