It needs a flat mirror at the north side and place it on a rock or metal you want it to produce heat at day time and chil at night it will triple the production
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have you tried solar assisted capillary tube desalination, ie solar pumped wood log as the capillary filter pump, yep its the container end cap also, like a wine bottle cap, two parts container, ie inner container with the salt water, and the wood log with the capillary pumping upward, and then the outer container, where the output will spill from the top of the log
The simple solar stills that I've made using clear plastic sheeting over a hole in the ground with a rock in the middle to make a cone over a collection pot were a lot more efficient than this.
Put the water in the big jar put the collection jar in the middle flip the lid so it becomes a drip point put a black piece of cardboard to insulate the lid to allow faster conversation I'm sure you would quadruple the amount of water you get out of that. Having the outside of the jar exposed to the sun will warm the water faster having the collection jar in the middle will allow better conversation and cooler environment.
The only way to increase the yield is to increase the heat (to increase evaporation) and the cold (to condense faster. Is there a particular reason that you don't just boil the water in a small fire and collect the condensate via a tube into a bottle that is sitting in cold water/wet sand? If you don't want to use fire then you need to think of a way to separate the heating and cooling elements - so a pipe to allow the moisture laden air to transfer into the collecting container and have the collecting container lower down and/or protected from the sun.
thanks man, lil bro spilled coffee on my kb a while ago. After a cleanup everything was working fine apart from the blinking lights! All fixed now tyty
Spray width is controlled in operation settings. Scroll down and you will see the option to change the swath distance. The accuracy of the spray is determined by a combination of weather conditions, height and speed. I would be doing test sprays to check the outlay of the spray. And then adjust accordingly. I hope this helps. Cheers!
Good morning, i do some distillation and sometimes i use a vacuum to allow the fluid to boil at a lower temperature so i would concur on the partial vacuum hypoisis
You don’t need electricity or natural gas. Any heat source will work. If you boil the water it is much faster but this works if that isn’t an option like if you are on a boat. Also salt is SO useful without technology. With salt you can preserve meat, create a cooler, use it to brush your teeth as a toothpaste substitute,, remove oils and grease and obviously flavor food.
Thanks for your comment! I appreciate your input! Sea water is full of useful compounds. I have also made a video discussing the process you have mentioned. How to extract drinking water and salt from sea water! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F9i12m006bo.html This video shows and explains the process of using a still to produce drinking water and salt. And like you say both the water extracted and the salt obtained are extremely useful! The answer to many of civilisations current issues lay in the ocean. Time has done the work for use and all we need to do is take the time to extract it. For example, sea water can also be processed using electrolysis. And doing this will give you sodium hydroxide, chlorine, oxygen, sodium carbonate, a battery and a way to complete more electrolysis. It is a deep rabbit hole that’s for sure!
This would certainly increase the evaporation speed but how would we collect the condensate? I’m think a vase like glass structure which blooms at the top to allow the evaporation out into a separate chamber and than the condensate needs to be separated so it’s doesn’t drip back onto the black surface.
so you mean re-write and sanitize, pun intended. some corp made that type of tool, for writing emails. not just error correction but re-phrasing. or just dont be in any rush. is it you then. yeah it works. probably cloud shade. you could take a measurement glass picture every day, to check how each day progresses and then control for the variations. maybe the heated water reservoir increases the distillation rate.
Yep. I really just needed to get this out. It was frustrating to write the thing up only to find I could no longer use it. This will hopefully be a one off. In the end it was a mixture of me and the machine. The machine is too clean and inhuman. And I feel as though the entire thing still made no sense. I probably shouldn’t have combined both experiments into the one video, but there was a need to compare the two videos to show how the evaporation increased over time. Maybe I could release the original video as well and just release it as a request video. Only available by requesting a link.
I'm guessing the charcoal probably started out relatively dry. Then it took time for it to be saturated. A third unit would have charcoal only in the sea water in the bottom, likely avoiding the delay. But then, that would cause a salt build-up in the charcoal. That being hard/impossible to remove, have to replace it every time. Another guess is that arrangement would slow down production rapidly (a more logarithmic daily production change). Perhaps the pickle jar/hourglass has the benefit of being uncontaminated over a longer duration/indefinitely. Like a pump or catalyst. Another important optimisation is to have the potable water directly draining into a tank with a non-return valve. That'd increase the humidity differential & efficiency. (Instead of evaporating potable water every cycle, slowing the water vapour transfer) Expanding even further, install plumbing directly into the salt water jar. A salt water flush/refill input & brine water drain on timed solenoid valves. Completely automated system. That said... At that point it's probably easier to modify a vacuum tube solar water heater. images.app.goo.gl/mZ57KoSEtFMsxkFJ6
Do you re-soak the charcoal in "new" seawater between runs to let salt out? The process should overall slow down with time, all else equal, as the salinity of the seawater increases as pure water is lost, and salts stay. The charcoal reduce the amount of free water and should be more effected by that with time, so that the charcoal setup didn't outperform the control more in the shorter run suggests there some issue, maybe higher amount of salts in the charcoal from the beginning?
I don't think the charcoal has contact with sea water. That's the interesting thing, no salt accumulation. Looks like it's acting like a heat pump/catalyst.
@@savagebushranger7953 The charcoal and the seawater are in the same jar. The charcoal turns visible light that hits it into heat, instead of reflecting it, which increase temperature, and thereby evaporation. And, the charcoal increase the surface area for water to evaporate from. The relationship between vapor pressure and temperature, and the importance of surface area for evaporation is very well known and documented.
@@fishyerikAh cheers, now I see. 👍 I thought the water level was below the stainless steel exclusion screen in the pickle jar. Therefore no salt contamination in the charcoal.
This is a good point. In the unreleased video I mentioned super saturated sea water. But I didn’t consider the super saturated char coal. I need to research this more before being able to provide any answers. So at this stage I am just adding new sea water to the char coal in the sea water vessel without rinsing the char coal. Thanks for the suggestion! This could definitely have something to do with it. But like I said in the video, initially the return from the char coal unit was double that of the control. And then over the period of nine days the daily rate increased from double to almost four times. But like I said, there are many variables at play.
@savagebushranger7953 Hello and thanks for your comment, it’s great to hear from you again! To clarify this version was designed to allow the char coal to have contact with the air and the sea water. So the charcoal was absorbing the water and expelling it after the light and heat heats it, then the evaporated water leaves the surface of the char coal allowing more water to soak into it. To say it is a pump of sorts is on the right track. It is certainly providing a flow of sorts in one direction.
Might i suggest using flatter paper shaped glass jar inside a bigger flat paper shaped glass container. The larger flat surface of the jar should face east-west so that it absorbs more sunlight for less water. Also as you evaporate more pure water from the seawater it gets more concentrated thus raising the boiling point. So the more pure water you get the hardee it is to get more from the same sample. You would have to set up an array of flat jars that you would replace the salt water inside every morning to get a lucrative total amount.
These are great points. Especially regarding the salt concentration of the sea water. This is an unknown at this stage as the water is evaporated from a mixture of thermal and photo molecular effects. I recently put together a video where I discussed the concentration of seawater as a possible issue with the evaporation process was but have not uploaded it has there was an issue with some of my results. I am releasing another video this evening to share the results of these experiments but this question has since been omitted has I add to re write the entire video. I will need to look into this further. I am also currently running another set of experiments with flatter containers and the results are very promising. See link provided. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--DexhaW65ME.htmlsi=xC5UIJ_svr09N_wT I am also currently working on the next video in regard to this model as well. I added a new variation to the unit. And the point about removing the water produced each day is still up for question. Tonight’s video reveals the issues I faced as I left the system to run for longer periods of time. The results become contradictory. The yield improved suggested that leaving more moisture in the system led to better results on an average per day basis. But this still needs to be confirmed. Cheers!
Using the same concept, wouldn't it work faster if you can boil the sea water and gather whatever water condensate into a separate container? It could take less than an hour, instead of weeks.
Yep. Absolutely. The idea of this experiment is to do the process with the sun only. I have done the process you’re talking about in this video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-F9i12m006bo.htmlsi=qrseLj1x5Z2h3Yg2
Wouldn't be that useful, the inner jar would eventually float and possibly spill into the clean water,, also, the more that evaporates would begin cooling the inner jar and slowing the evaporation.. A different set-up would be much better
@@Remraf 1. try to find jars that have a bubbled texture, it would magnify the sun 2. Don't paint the inner jar black as some suggested (complicated explanation, but trust me, don't do that) 3. Have the inner jar raised so it's not sitting in the fresh water 4. Use a more open/wider and shallow inner jar because air and glass are really good insulators and the light from the sun would have to go through glass>air>glass agian>air again, and then evaporate the water With a shallow and wider inner container it would only be glass>air then evaporate water Hope that helps
@scottpeters1847 yep. I agree about the painting of the inner jar black. It would create a number of potential issues. And as for your design. Ive actually had a chance to put this together as well. It’s similar to your design. Check it out here. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--DexhaW65ME.htmlsi=Oe2Rrcugd_2-ylFS
Do this with two fish tanks outside, could even turn the inner one into a salt water aquarium. As long as you are able to add water to the center one and have a glass of plexi top. Add a tap to the outside tank.😱
Little bit old, but important because I see no one else saying this-what fixed this issue for me was realizing that the switches to the left of the USB slot on my K65 wired keyboard labelled “BIOS” had accidentally been switched. iCUE was no longer recognizing a keyboard anymore and I was so confused as the keyboard still worked, but simply switching from setting 4 to setting 1 fixed everything for me, indicating I must’ve just accidentally switched it at some point. Hope this helps someone.
This is a great question. And I am unsure of the answer at the moment. But the fact that it would degrade over time is enough of an insight to consider removing it from the design all together. I need to find a better way to seal it up. I think I will remove it completely and perhaps run the experiment without the seal to see what the results are. Thanks for the question. I will see what I can find.
It might sound crazy but for me worked a little bit anotger tactic: 1. Unplug 2. Hold Esc 3. Plug while holding Esc 4. Stop holding Esc while plugged . . 5. It works! Flashing stoped! Anyway many thanks and kudos to you for Esc holding idea =)
All good. Glad to hear it’s working! I enjoy communicating this information and helping people! Perhaps the viewers can use your technique if the one suggested in the video fails to work! Solutions all round!
So whenever you find yourself in a real emergency situation, totally dehydrated, and by some kind of miracle you are offered to do just one wish. You would wish for three glass jars and sea water.
maybe try a trash bag under the wide base. what was the underlying surface color in the experiments. you can compare if the trash bag black surface is inside the container or under the container. as heat collector. maybe you could wrap a transparent plastic container from inside with the black trash bag, to absorb heat into. possibly black trash bags alone could be a super solar distiller, maybe combined with desiccant as the purifier water source. yes you could even hang a black trash bag from a tree, or any other beam, with a rope. zeolite would absorb the sea water, then solar heat would be used to extract the purified water. the zeolite solar evaporation cooler might require direct sun light and not just indirect solar heat.
It was actually a black basketball hoop stand, so plenty of heat. This experiment worked well but I need to set it up to extract the water as it is generated. It is far too saturated! And it is sticking to the sides and the lid.
it seems that having SiO2 silica gel desiccant in a water filled steel container will boost the evaporation even while indoors, not in direct sun light. the water in a steel can evaporated super fast with there being silica gel about 50% to the liquid amount. ie having absorbed max water from the can. It was a couple days and the water was gone. dont know if the silica gel was also regenerated at the same time.
Hi and thanks for your question! This process can remove all particulates from the water, all solid material will be left behind in the sea water jar along with the salt etc... This includes most of the harmful material that could potentially pollute the water source. Providing there are no “organic volatiles” then you should be good. Ethanol is an example of a volatile organic that could possibly be distilled over into the drinking water. Benzene is another. If the water you are distilling is known to be heavily polluted I would be testing it before distilling. Bacteria is another nasty that can be removed using this distillation process. It is not without its benefits that’s for sure and goes a long way to purifying it. But nothing can be 100% unless tests are performed to confirm this. Heavily polluted waters might include places that have oil spills or contamination. These types of Organics can be distilled over into the water source and are therefore a potential issue. Fractional distillation (industrial process) is how oil is broken into its fractions such as diesel and gasoline. I hope this helps. If you have any further questions feel free to ask and I will do my best to answer them. Cheers!
This would be interesting to see done. Providing it can be sealed up in way that stops the evaporation from escaping it should be more than enough to get the job done. It would be awesome to see. Might have to include this into a future video. Thanks for the suggestion. Cheers!
Yep. I have attempted to seal up the units in a previous video. I used sticky tape and it left a taste through the water that was unpleasant and potentially dangerous. A bag and band on the other hand would be effective. Perhaps even a hood would do the job. I can’t wait to see what the results are from the next series of experiments. It is so far looking promising! Cheers!
or just place both under a very transparent solar roof, so that the rain water collects from the side of the roof. then you can also test how much a transparent solar roof limits the extraction rate, if any. yep green house stype of solar roof. plasma channel suggested that high electric field triggers the condensation of water vapour. yep simple high voltage static electric field will collapse condensation. ie pre-lightning rain. sometimes it does not make up lightning, even if there is the field. solar atmospheric moisture condensation would work in deserts, where is no sea water. the desiccant method. also if you fill a straight glass inner container with water and charcoal, not the hour glass shape, then you have double the black solar rays absorption area. that inner jar could have a screw lid with a hole in the middle.
Your information about static electricity is interesting. Two Bit DaVinci recently released a video about the photo molecular effect. MIT released a paper confirming what I had suggested in the first solar distillation video in this series. Light bounces molecules of water off the surface, it has a massive impact on the evaporation rates. Turns out I was on the right track way back in the first video, two years ago now. There are so many potential opportunities to improve this system. The next set of results are almost ready to be recorded. And they are very surprising to say the least. Can’t wait to publish it. Cheers! I always appreciate the depth of your feedback.
i would just use a pot with a water distiller on top of it, if you're having to create charcoal anyways. There have been other methods with tarps and rain water to then be ran through a filter that would be doing the same thing as this small scale test
That’s a good point. But from what I can see the results have improved significantly without the need for fire. I am hoping to get two videos up, one today and one tomorrow. Thanks for the suggestion!