Project Updates

This is all the work we have done so far on this project. This section of our blog shows our accomplishments, our problems, and documents the entire project.

The Energy Lab

October 2, 2012
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The Energy Lab

We’ve got an invitation to The Energy Lab — EDF’s new pavilion in France, featuring the winning designs from the EDF Sustainable Design Challenge. Below is the invitation in full. Sadly, we won’t be going… EDF is proud to invite you to the opening of The Energy Lab where you can visit the “Design...
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The Water Channel

June 14, 2012
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Our project and its video was just posted on The Water Channel! Here’s a description of what they do: TheWaterChannel was launched at the WordWaterForum in 2009 in Istanbul as a partnership of MetaMeta Communications, Nymphaea, UNESCO-IHE, and Cap-Net. The idea was to support education and awareness in water by making video material available...
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DRIPS Prototypes

March 3, 2012
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DRIPS Prototypes

So now we have three prototypes: two from India and one locally-produced. They are very different. But the latest version is what we are sending to EDF for the EDF Pavilion Exhibition at the London Summer Olympics Games. Check them out:
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First Glimpse of DRIPS from India

February 15, 2012
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First Glimpse of DRIPS from India

We just got our first glimpse of DRIPS from India — these were produced in India and are being shipped to us now. Can’t wait to see them in person!
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Cost of Chicken Project

November 23, 2011
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Cost of Chicken Project

This year (2011), we are still focusing on food. We want to know the true cost of food — its price; the distance it traveled to get to our dinner tables; the people who grew it; the methods that were used to grow it; how it was produced; how good is it for us...
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Open Source Ecology

October 6, 2011
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Open Source Ecology

This is another organization we learned about at UC Berkeley Design Lab. They are doing some cool things: open source tractors! We might contact them for help with our prototypes. Check them out!
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TechShop in San Francisco

October 6, 2011
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TechShop in San Francisco

UC Berkeley community of product designers recommended we check out TechShop. We need to build a prototype of D.R.I.P.S. by end of December!
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Hackerspaces

October 6, 2011
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We met with UC Berkeley and they recommended a few places that can help us develop the D.R.I.P.S. prototype. Here’s one: Noisebridge. Watch what they do:
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The EDF Sustainable Design Challenge Video

August 8, 2011
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The EDF Sustainable Design Challenge Video

EDF has put up a video of the judging of the projects, the award presentation ceremony, the party, and some interviews of the teachers that shepherded their students through this competition. Here it is below and here’s a link to the EDF web site. Enjoy! We did. EDF DESIGN CHALLENGE The first edition finalists...
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GreenMonk: the blog

August 4, 2011
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We found this blog post by one of the judges for the EDF Sustainable Design Challenge: GreenMonk. The post not only gives a nice description of the competition, but it also links to our project! Thank you!
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We Won

August 4, 2011
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We Won

It’s official: the D.R.I.P.S. project is one of the eight winners of the EDF Sustainable Design Challenge. We now have to work out more of the details of the project and test it out. We’ll putting up more updates as we go along on this blog. The final project will be featured in the...
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To Each His Own

June 5, 2011
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To Each His Own

The more research we do, the more we post on this site, the more obvious is becomes that different areas of the world, different peoples are need the flexibility in the approach to developing dew collection systems for plan irrigation. Some places have a lot of fog and would benefit from using nets-based D.R.I.P.S....
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Growing Food in Dry Environment

June 4, 2011
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Growing Food in Dry Environment

Here’s an illustration of how D.R.I.P.S. would be used to farm potatoes, using evapotranspiration—by collecting dew and delivering it to the plants’ root system. This is our low energy passive irrigation system in scarce water environment.
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Atmospheric Moisture

June 3, 2011
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Atmospheric Moisture

We are working on our movie for the D.R.I.P.S. presentation in Paris this summer. To really explain how our invention would work, we need to give a few definitions and provide some physics background. So this post is a collection of useful concepts and definitions about water in the air. The Hydrologic Cycle This...
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Where Do We Fit In?

June 2, 2011
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Where Do We Fit In?

Some things that collect water from the air are quite large, such as fog harvesters. Some are very expensive: air water condenser turbine. Some are very small: the desert beetle dew harvester. And some are inexpensive: Tal-Ya irrigators (only $1.00 each). We thought it would be appropriate to show you where we think D.R.I.P.S....
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