Posted on 06/28/2007 5:20:09 AM PDT by Renfield
“It needs a new dew collector”....from the book Dune!
They taught us how to make these in Boy Scouts about 30 years ago with a tarp, a rock and four sticks.
Just do the dew.
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Great application of an old, old idea. More info here:
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Water-in-the-Desert
Have I become cynical, or what?
I remember seeing on a nature special how some desert critters get their water from morning dew on the sparse vegetation.
Obviously someone else saw it with a sharper eye!
The only potential problem I can see is birdie doo on the collection web. How do you keep the droplets from the upper side from curling around to the lower side?
Me too, I was going to say the same thing.
What’s old is new, I guess.
The titanium, gold, and platinum in the UN version alone would cost many thousands. It could take years to manufacture. They should create an International Committee on Dew Collecting to sort this complicated scenario out. :)
The answer does not fit the socialist template, so it is forbidden to talk about it. When elites are shown “helping” quaint native peoples who are living “sustainable lifestyles” this allows elites to be seen showing compassion.
Heads of foundations, who love driving BMWs, can be shown giving help to those “less fortunate”. Everybody wins, except the natives, who may have more water because of this, but still cannot buy enough food to eat or build anything more palatial than a dirt-floor mud brick hut.
I remember that from “Boy’s Life Magazine” on astronaut survival techniques.
Ok, sarcasm off.
Water vapor is one of the most potent ‘greenhouse gasses’ known. It’s a suppressed conundrum with regards to hydrogen vehicles/machines and their output.
I have a device in my basement that produces water from the air that my wife bought at Walmart.
It is called a dehumidifier.
*sarcasm*
This is an old idea with a new twist. Aerial wells and fog collection have been used in Peru but this seems to get quite a bit of water for the buck. Good post.
I think if it were in use for any length of time - - coupla weeks - - mold would grow on the underside or in the collection area.
I think if it were in use for any length of time - - coupla weeks - - mold would grow on the underside or in the collection area.
I think if it were in use for any length of time - - coupla weeks - - mold would grow on the underside or in the collection area.
Doesn’t the temp have to go down to the dew point at the location for this to work? There are a lot of nights around me that don’t have dew. How can they say they can extract a minimum of 48 litres of fresh water daily under such conditions?
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