Posts Tagged ‘ water vapor ’

Videos on Fog Collection Around the World

July 1, 2011
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To make our collection of resources a bit more international in scope, here are few videos we found on how to make fog collectors with cheap materials and use them around the globe. Enjoy! The cool addition here are the fans inside the cage that lower the temperature for better fog collection (at least...
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How to Build a Dew Catcher

June 4, 2011
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This video shows to construct a dew catcher (really more like a fog catcher) from an aluminum frame and netting.
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The Voyage of the Mimi: Making Dew

June 4, 2011
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This is a very old science educational video (my mom worked on it). See if you recognize the little boy in the video… Oh, and it shows how to make fresh water from seawater through evaporation and dew formation (start at about 9 minutes into the video):
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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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Qualitative and Quantitative Evaluation

November 28, 2010
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EDF Evaluation Question: “Please estimate your project benefits for the plant and people, demonstrating its sustainable potential.” and “If a qualitative evaluation is possible, please prescribe the impact of your project, listing your sources and the evaluation tool applied.” Answer: D.R.I.P.S. project is designed to reduce Water Footprint, Preserve Raw Materials, and add to...
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Research on Dew Point

November 21, 2010
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Dew-Point from Weather Online: Dew point (ger: Taupunkt; fr:point de rosée) or condensation point is the temperature at which a parcel of air must be cooled at constant pressure and humidity mixing ratio until it reaches saturation, and at which condensation of water vapor forms either as dew, cloud droplets, ice crystals, mist or...
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