Show inventors plan to utilize ocean water for irrigation bakersfield CALIF legislators in california have suggested that water from the pacific ocean might be used to prevent future droughts in bakersfield harry armenia armenta and S C darrah are working on the same problem they have vis ions of distilling ocean water for ir IT by use of the sun s rays they are the inventors of the solar flash boiler the solar flash boiler uses no fuel except the heat from the sun it consists of curved aluminum troughs which trap the sunlight and reflect the rays into a copper tube containing water smoked previous to installation with a blow torch the copper tube holds the heat it is then surrounded with pyrex tubes which provide fur ther insulation 11 the aluminum troughs darrah said can be fitted with timing machinery which will keep them slanted toward the sun the two experimenters claim to have tested successfully a small scale model of their sun machine the model they reported built up of steam pressure under a moderate afternoon sun |