electricity is more efficient for that: Adamant Technologies SA have developed a technology to clean water with electrolysis and doped diamond coated electrodes. http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=32571440
It is under chapter11 because they could not find their market, and real application like water for baby was too disruptive for the big players like Danone... they step back to organic pool cleaning, but it was not enough... some patent may be sold http://www.patentstorm.us/assignee-patents/_Adamant_Technologies_SA/601041/1.html you can see there what happen to a technology that could change the world by giving easily save water to babies... Big players helped much by cowardliness and desire not to cut easy sales. 2013/6/4 Hoyt A. Stearns Jr. <[email protected]> > It occurred to me that if heat energy becomes free enough, you could use > it to sterilize a swimming**** > > pool by putting the heater in the circulation pump line and boiling, then > condensing the water back to its**** > > original temperature briefly as it travels through the plumbing. A > circulation pump can be on the order of **** > > 100 gallons/minute, so it's still lots of power, but most would be > recovered during the condensing phase.**** > > ** ** > > Hoyt Stearns**** > > Scottsdale, Arizona US**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > *From:* Jed Rothwell [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 4, 2013 6:39 AM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [Vo]:Heating an Olympic pool to boiling**** > > ** ** > > There has been some discussion here as to whether you could heat an > Olympic pool to boiling with a 900 W heater. The answer is no, you cannot. > In fact there is no way you could even detect this much heat with that much > water. As I mentioned that is the heat from two people swimming. That ...* > *** > > ** ** >
