Mixaerator sterilises water without chemicals

"The usual way to stop the smells is to aerate the water. When you put air in, biological breakdown occurs and there are no more smells.

"This time too much gunk was flowing in and out, pushing air in only forced the smell out! The only viable solution was to pull the stuff up from the bottom and mix it with sufficient volumes of air to ensure no odour emanated. That’s when I thought of the bath tub and salmon,” he said.

"Having the first machine made was difficult. Several machinery shops just didn’t believe that it would work, I had to pay up front and convince one to make it even if it didn’t work,” Mike said. "Of course it did though."

Mike used versions of his machines with great success. The Queensland government even funded him to clean up old road depot sites on the Brisbane to Gold Coast Highway. "My job was to remove all the poisons, like arsenic and lead from the soil."

Following this, he wanted to bring Mixaerator to market to provide the opportunity for others to use the technology. "Unfortunately when I explained Mixaerator most people just didn’t understand how it could work it needed to be seen and endorsed by a third party,” he said.

The opportunity finally came when he was asked to demonstrate Mixaerator to a large water enterprise.

The Gold Coast Water Supply had deteriorated due to extensive drought and they planned to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars contracting an American company to add carbon powder to fix it.

"The Mixaerator is deceptive in it’s size for what it can achieve so I think maybe some people on the day initially wondered if it would work. However nine engineers came along and were willing to at least give the technology a try," Mike said

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