Friday, April 04, 2014

Neat Water Condenser

My idea of using dehumidifiers to provide local water having failed its first test, the idea is still viable. Here's a CNN story on some dew catchers being made in the African desert. They're made of local materials. Don't use electricity. Gather up to 25 gallons a day and are pretty neat looking.

3 Comments:

At 9:54 AM, Blogger PsychoNumber1 said...

i saw these a little twist on that a little while back.

http://bigthink.com/design-for-good/the-first-billboard-in-the-world-to-make-drinking-water-out-of-thin-ai

billboards that do basically the same thing. if we can't get rid of them, may as well convert them.

 
At 10:03 AM, Blogger Fred Mangels said...

That's pretty neat. Thanks for sharing.

 
At 9:08 PM, Blogger Steve Lewis said...

It is great news for low rainfall areas that just atmospheric moisture as dew is available even in desert regions. I think we'll be seeing a lot more dew-catching design innovations, whole buildings catching dew, streets lined with dew catchers, maybe catching enough water combined with low-water use techniques we learned over 40 years ago using French Intensive-Biodynamic gardening so perhaps there's no need for piping water huge distances or desalinization.

 

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