Water from wind- an inventor in Australia claims to defeat global warming

Richard Young

Tue Jan 30 19:13:56 -0800 2007

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This is a fantastic idea.

Between a water tank and this, we could remove our dependency on mains water all together!

Living in the blue mountains (100kms west of Sydney CBD), we are always at risk of severe bush fires during the summer.  This invention could ensure that there is an adequate supply of water in remote locations for the rural fire brigade to use.
Maybe this collected water could be used to top up the Warragamba dam?

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zogger

Tue Jan 30 20:54:35 -0800 2007

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Pretty spiffy! I think I know how it works, have seen a variation on it before. The moisture laden air gets pumped underground through long tubes where the temp differential acts as the condenser, and you gravity drain off the accumulated water. Right now though I can't seem to find the link with a drawing for the process.

Here is an URL with various water from the air devices, all of them a scosh more complex and expensive then the wind powered ones

There was also that story way back of those andes folks using mist traps in the high humid air to catch water

And if you did the water collecting at high altitude, before you used it, say mountain top down to the valley where the farm action and people water drinking goes on, just run down a pipe and make some electricity using hydropower turbines.

And that's the silver magic bullet to alternative energy and transportation and sustainable living and so on-there is no one perfect way, but we already have a plethora of ways that taken as an aggregate is more than enough to get out of the "thinking about it, need to throw another decade and ten zillion at hydrogen fusion zero point fuel cell reactors research and...yada" stage we have been at for years and years now and get right down to the "OK- the tech is good enough for now, we can make it better as we go along, so let's do it!" stage.

I've used this analogy before and it still fits, if we, the computer using public, had waited until we had multiple core giga hertz machines with gigs of ram and half a terrabyte hard drives , etc, for relatively cheap bucks before we all decided to just go ahead as individuals and "do it", we'd still be forced to go to the big expensive vaccum tube main frame building and log on. It would never of happened. It takes individuals to make society change, individuals with enthusiasms and the "do it" spirit that gets things done. money->mouth. that's it, that's all that really works, that and gettin' yore handz durty....

Water from wind

Peter Parry

Wed Jan 31 03:28:17 -0800 2007

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Philip Adams (author of the linked story) is one of the most intelligent journalists there is and his recommendation is not to be lightly dismissed.  He has a program on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) radio called "Late Night Live" where he interviews people from the cutting edge of all sorts of fields across the sciences and humanities as well as examining politics and current affairs.  see http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/  It has a growing global audience via podcast.

well, hopefully then....

zogger

Wed Jan 31 18:46:08 -0800 2007

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...his bully pundit pulpit will be effective. And if all the inventor needs is a few mil, what is that nowadays in VC circles, chump change?

Water from wind- an inventor in Australia claims to defeat global warming

colin barboutis

Tue Feb 13 23:44:20 -0800 2007

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Nice to see Dr Ken Rauen's comments, It is this sort of comment that keeps the saying alive in respect to experts. Nice work ken , next time how about a little thought prior to comment. Unless your always right....