科技动态:为更多的人提供纯净水

It can produce more than 75,000 liters of clean drinking water per day, generate electricity and produce medical grade oxygen. It's called the Hydra¹ and the team of scientists behind it say it will change the face of disaster relief.

它每天能生产75,000升纯净的饮用水，能发电，还能生产医用氧。它名叫Hydra，科学家们称它将改变赈灾救援的状况。

It provides virus-free drinking water. It provides power in the storage of hydrogen and it provides renewable energy in the storage of solar energy from the solar panels.

它能净化出无病毒的纯净饮用水。同时从氢气的储存中提供电能，从太阳板中吸收太阳能提供再生能源。

Hydrogen runs on a self-contained cycle of clean renewable energy. The solar panels harness energy that powers the system, accesses energy then goes into charging batteries and producing hydrogen power. That energy in return keeps the system running at night and on cloudy days. Hydrogen water purification system uses two separate purification units that filter out bacteria and several viruses. All of these elements combined to make hydra a powerful tool in disaster zones like Haiti after a massive earthquake that millions of people without clean water and electricity.

氢气通过独立循环系统提供再生能源。太阳板吸收太阳能为系统提供能源。氢能发出的电被储存在充电电池中。储存的能量能够保障Hydra在夜晚和阴天的时候照常运转。氢发电的水会经过两个独立的净化系统，滤出细菌和病毒。所有的这些元素使得Hydra成为救援赈灾中的得力工具，比如地震后的海地，几百万的民众没有引用水，也没有电。

Hydra's inventors say the machine can play an important role in third world countries. According to Water.org, a non-profit that analyses global water issues one in eight people on the planet don't have access to clean drinking water. And every year 3.5 million people die of water-related diseases. The price tag on a Hydra unit 95,000 dollars. Its developers say it's a small price to pay for the amount of good it can do.

Hydra的发明者表示Hydra在第三世界国家将发挥重要作用。根据一家非盈利组织water.org的调查，地球上每八个人中就有一人喝不到纯净的饮用水。每年有350万人死于水传染疾病。每台Hydra售价95,000美元，发明者表示这样的价钱绝对是物超所值。

Ben Gruber,Reuters.

Ben Gruber，路透社消息。

1 hydra   

n.水螅；难于根除的祸患

参考例句：

• Let's knock down those hydras and drive them to the sea!让我们铲除祸根，把他们赶到大海去！
• We may be facing a hydra that defies any easy solution.我们也许正面临一个无法轻易解决的难题。