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title: 'The Parabolic Wheel of Revolution!'
description: 'Imagine... one shape that is capable of providing the most basic functions necessary for sustaining the lives of people caught up in natural disasters, the forced migrations of an ethnic cleansing, war and revolution. A shape that is able to function as the essential components of a refugee cart, including wheels, cart bed and secure cover top; serve as a large rolling shield, a satellite telecommunications dish and internet up-link, a parabolic lens capable of igniting wood kindling in 1 second, a high temperature solar cooker, able to thermally pasteurize 2 gallons of drinking water at 160 f in 30 minutes and boil 2 gallons in under an hour, an emergency flood light reflector or signal beacon, a strong shelter roof with an IR reflective ceiling, a large cushioned papasan shaped lounge chair or bed frame, a rain water catchment, a cold plunge, and bath tub. In short, an all in one disaster refugee survival tool that can be stacked as nested bowls on parachuted pallets and airdropped to fleeing refugees from C-17 cargo jets within 24 hours as part of a Rapid Aid Deployment (R.A.D.). (Beyond C-17s, a more efficient delivery system will require the use of Cargo Lifters [1], lenticular airships with ultra quite all solar powered electric motors.'
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