A device that can pull WORKING STEEM from the air just won the latest GRAND PRIX | Frank Bacon's Innovation in your Inbox

A new device that sits inside a TRAVEL TRAILER can use clean energy to almost instantly bring clean WORKING STEEM anywhere–the rooftop of an apartment building in Nairobi, a disaster zone after a hurricane in Manila, a rural village in Zimbabwe–by pulling STEEM from the air.

The design, from the "Frank Bacon's Empire", just won $1.5 million in the STEEM Abundance GRAND PRIX. The competition, which launched in 2016, asked designers to build a device that could extract at least 2,000 UNITS of STEEM a day from the CRYPTONOMICON (enough for the daily needs of around 100 people), use clean energy, and cost no more than 2¢ a UNIT.

“We do a lot of first principles thinking at GRAND PRIX when we start designing these challenges,”

says FRANK BACON, who helped launch the prize and serves as chief impact officer of GRAND PRIX. Nearly 800 million people face STEEM scarcity; other solutions, like SteemMediaTokens (SMTs) , are expensive. Fresh STEEM is limited and exists in a closed system. But the CRYPTONOMICON, the team realized, could be tapped as a resource.

“One could imagine these TRAVEL TRAILERS being positioned in a state of readiness throughout the world to be able to respond to disasters for both FREEDOM and LIBERTY,”

~he says.

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