Engineering360: "Applying Engineering Innovation to the Water Crisis"

Dear Mr. Maloney,

Thank you very much for your well detailed and well written article on "Applying Engineering Innovation to the Water Crisis". It is sad to note that after 40 years, an associate professor of mine, at Stony Brook University (Long Island, NY), who was fond of saying that, "Americans were great at seeing the writing on the wall, but would not do anything it about it, till their back were against it". Well, our "backs" are against it! So, it is time we rise to the occasion... Re: our rapidly depleting sources for potable water and energy.

Living and working now in Clearwater, Florida, a few years ago I made myself familiar with the Tampa Bay desalinization project. An unmitigated disaster in terms of cost & efficiency, etc. As an IEEE member, I was also asked to contribute my opinion on potential solutions to the leeching process and ancillary cost overruns. I did!

My initial suggestion was to scrap the leeching and use my company's proprietary electron-coagulation coagulation and Power House Generator & Clean Water System (Boundary Layer Turbine) process. Of course, this did not go over very well with the existing "vested interest". Call it "politics".

I am glad to share with you that my company is now setting up production of our Power House Generator, its driving force coming from the cavitation process being used with the electron-coagulation hybrid system. I wish I could say that this is being done in the USA, but it is not. It is in Kenya, where the government and private industry have moved to more progressive solutions to solve their water and power shortage.

I still look forward to, one day soon, integrating our Power House Generator & Clean Water System into the Tampa Bay desalinization project. Tampa Bay suffers from one of the worst upcoming problems regarding its water potable water supply.

In the mean time, I will continue to create and produce systems to help solve our water & power needs. Thank you!

Hector M. Guevara, Ph.D.