All the bleeding hearts should own one of those
Posted on: May 17, 2011 - 5:38pm
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All the bleeding hearts should own one of those
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/fog-harvesting-0421.html
Out of thick air
MIT graduate student is working to make water available for the world’s poor by refining the tools and techniques of fog harvesting.
If enough of these are sold in the West, it will bring the manufacturing costs down, making them available for the third world.
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Maybe I'm dense but I don't get your point. Is your topic title intended to be sarcastic? I think it is a pretty cool idea, though there may be less expensive ways of harvesting fog - or dew.
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Can it be used to water plants?
Not at all, I mean that, lol.
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I don't see why not, it's drinkable water, I think it's a very cool idea. Fresh water is one of the major problems facing our future.
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I can see how that would be very useful as part of a survival kit. If you could make one small enough, but still effective to provide water for one or two people I imagine you could do decent business among hunters in dry climates.
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That's a tool mean't for a desert kit.
So why would this work and a piece of canvas bag, tent, or fine wire mesh not work for "fog harvesting"?
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I'm guessing that would work also, just not as efficiently.
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The perfect thing for those foggy, humid desert mornings... It could work on the moon too... I think the idea is to provide DRINKABLE water, not to produce water out of thin air. You need humidity in the air to have fog.
Edit: mistype
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Your next quote, Ktulu is the answer to Kap's question. Drinkable water. Canvas bags, tents, wire mesh, and a slew other materials would collect water just fine. But there are three problems I can think of. The first one is cross contamination - just where has that canvas bag been and just what are you drinking from it? Secondly, the canvas bag, tent, etc would also absorb some of the water collected and is there fore less efficient. When you are talking the minuscule amount you are going to get, that bit soaked up by the canvas or even nylon is significant waste. Maybe not as significant for the wire mesh -
There is also the size of the interstices in the material. Water will collect best on a mesh of a certain size and certain gap shape due to the molecular size and shape of water molecules. I don't know what that may be, but this material is most likely optimized for water so you aren't collecting the acid in acid rain for example as well as water.
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There are techniques to get water in the desert. I would think that this product could be used in conjunction with a solar still, which is basically a sheet of plastic over a hole with a drinking container in the center. The plastic creates a greenhouse effect evaporation and water condenses on the plastic and if built properly, should run to the center of the plastic and into the drinking container. Best application of current techniques would get you up to a quart of water a day with a 6x6 still. This product might improve that. So if it is better at attracting water than plastic, it would be just the thing to include in your desert survival kit.
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