And here’s another: Skywater 300 Atmospheric Water Generator.
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And here’s another: Skywater 300 Atmospheric Water Generator.
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Here’s another cool technology to generate water from air using electricity: EcoloBlue:
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This is a very cool invention: https://youtu.be/MEqCyAe_ClM This guy is using electricity generated by a wind turbine to cool the air and extract liquid. Here’s more:
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Here’s another documentary about the work of Canadian non-profit organization, FogQuest:
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More fog collection from Nepal:
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This video shows off the fog collection technology that was used in Eritrea and Nepal.
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Who knew? There’s actually a conference that’s dedicated to dew collection! Check it out: http://fogconference2013.org/ Here’s their announcement: “The 6th International Conference on Fog, Fog Collection and Dew will be held in Yokohama, Japan, 19-24 May, 2013. The goal of this conference is to bring together people who are interested in any aspect of...
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We are doing a lot of research in these last few days. We came across a dew irrigation system that had a lot of similarity to our D.R.I.P.S. project. It is a system designed by an Israeli company Tal-Ya. Here are few photos of their product (notice the irrigation lines): At first it was...
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Okay, so how about a fan shaped metal structure? It would maximize the surface area—very important as dew collects on the surface—the larger the surface are, the more water can potentially be collected. It naturally funnels the water into the “drill” structure below. It can easily be constructed (even by us) from a perforated...
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We are trying to think out-the-box, or a cone, in our case. In a very interesting video, an engineering class proposed a dew harvester constructed from a metal mesh coated with a hydrophobic layer. This approach would increase the total surface area thereby increasing the average amount of dew that could be collected. Nick...
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We came across the use of clay pots for irrigation while doing research on water conservation done by farmers in rural communities. So here’s a description of VERY old technology. A large clay unglazed pot is buried in the ground next to a plant. Clay is very porous, so when this pot is filled...
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While in eighth grade, I did a video on lotus leaves and superhydrophobic surfaces. D.R.I.P.S. would benefit from having such a surface on the cone part of the dew collecting structure. Check out this video from California Institute of Technology (one of the schools I’m thinking of attending in a few years). The video...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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We just got our first glimpse of DRIPS from India — these were produced in India and are being shipped to us now. Can’t...
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This year (2011), we are still focusing on food. We want to know the true cost of food — its price; the distance it...
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