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Creating Drinking Water From Air
« on: April 10, 2014, 10:22:08 am »



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Solutions: Billboard Dispenses Public Water Drawn from Air - Truthstream Media


Atmospheric water generator could make offgrid systems viable or unlivable places inhabitable.

Editor’s Note: Scalable atmospheric water generators are a great solutions application for alternative lifestyles. They exist here and now (but could probably be tweaked), and are already on the market for individual families, but are also sold scalable to the industrial or community application.

Could this help provide abundance to corners of the world struggling for the basics of survival? What would happen if the needs of the poor were provided, or if private citizens concerned about the quality of municipal water supplies started their own system?

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Water-producing billboard designed to inspire

February 26, 2013
The University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) in Lima, Peru has partnered with advertising agency MAYO-DRAFT FCB to create an advertising billboard that grabs moisture from the desert air and converts it into filtered drinking water.



An advertising billboard erected along the Pan-American Highway is also home to some hidden harvesting, conversion and purification mechanisms (including an air filter, condenser, carbon filter and cold tank). The electric system takes moisture from the humid air by means of reverse osmosis and delivers purified drinking water through small ducts at the foot of the billboard, and down to a tap at the base of the structure. (source: gizmag.com)?




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Peruvian billboard creates drinking water (Wired UK)

Drinking Water out of Air

by geobear7 • 12Aug2013

Researchers at the University of Engineering and Technology in Lima, Peru, have erected a billboard that pulls drinking water out of thin air.

Water vapour is the third most abundant gas in air, after nitrogen and oxygen, and it can be easily extracted using a condenser.

Five of those condensers are installed inside the billboard, and the resulting water is then filtered and stored in tanks near the top. It can produce 96 litres of water per day, which is then dispensed from a tap at the base of the structure.

The whole thing is an elaborate advert for the university, which says it wants to put “imagination into action”, showing people that it’s possible to solve problems with engineering.

The problem in this case is that the region where the billboard has been erected is almost a desert. Despite this, air humidity is high — often reaching 98 percent. The billboard extracts this water, and delivers it to local people. It cost just £790 to set up.

A spokesperson for the University, Jessica Ruas, told the BBC: “We want to change the minds of future engineers and inspire them.”



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Re: Creating Drinking Water From Air
« Reply #1 on: April 10, 2014, 10:46:41 am »


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Re: Creating Drinking Water From Air
« Reply #2 on: April 10, 2014, 12:30:02 pm »





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Re: Creating Drinking Water From Air
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2014, 12:40:55 pm »
Thanks, Thor

We have a local dealer selling air water units he gets from China, similar to the one Willie is leaning on.  I was suprised that they would even work here in the desert. I didn't know that they are the same technology as the more trendy 'water alkalizersl,' but all distilled water needs to have minerals readded for health's sake, so I guess that's the alkalizing part.

I wonder what sort of the ecological backlash we might see if their used becomes widespread? Our local microclimate needs its already small amount of humidity in order to thrive. 

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