The Playpump
April 24th, 2005 by rbanks
I love the dual nature of this idea. It’s a kids playground roundabout, installed in a bunch of locations in South Africa, that pumps water from deep underground into storage tanks as the kids play.
Genius.
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John Says
Now if we could just start hooking up all those hampster wheels to generators…
Apr 25th, 2005 at 7:39 pm