How To Turn Thin Air Into Water | Konstantin Avdienko | TEDxTeen 

The answer my friend is blowing in the wind. The answer is blowing in the wind. Thanks Konstantin your head and heart are in a good place ‼️

Well. The point is, that you need to cool down 1000 liter of air (that is 1m^3 of air) from 30°C to 10°C under optimal conditions. - that means 100% humidity - in order to get 20ml of water. It is very clear, that you cannot do this with some CPU-fan and cheap solar panels in an acceptable period of time. And the thing gets worse in really dry areas, where humidity is way less then 100%. This has nothing to do with like or do not like. This is basic thermodynamics. I beleive you, when you say you can condense water from air, after all this is not new. It is exactly what a dehumidifier does. And also the story of the bug is a nice story. But the point is, that the bug can survive with only a handfull of waterdrops per day. But a human cannot, even if you manage to condense a 100 times that amount. Personally, for me the most interesting number would have been, how much water could you get from air under which conditions in what time. And I wonder why you talked a lot about the need for such a technology but have not provided this basic figures or some theoreticcal number of what is possible at all. And that, my young friend, almost always means something.

This guy is beyond talented....may all your dreams come true

If this technology would have been put in place by now, we would not see the devastating results of regional drought in the United States. Farmers and Foresters alike could install this technology.

Thank you!

We use a dehumidifier in the summer and I average 2 gals a day from June through mid September in East Texas. I use the water to water house plants & garden ....then store the rest in rain barrels, but I would love to change this to filter it for drinking.

How much water (on average) does your unit produce? What are the materials needed? Specifics, please.

Tremendous output! May God bless your endeavors 💯

Keep it up, I am try to work on similar aspect (though my aim is slightly different)

Why is everybody so full of hate? Maybe this device really works and could actually save lives. You're all just criticizing but this guy is trying to change something.

Do we have a working model of this till date, i need to install one at my native place as we dont get water from natural sources for approx 8 months in a year

What do you use for the coolant in the coils: some 'clean' water or something like engine coolant? Can you show me a diagram for how the condenser works or provide some information to try to make one for myself?

It is interesting how solutions can be achieved, to improve life on our beautiful Ocean Planet. The solutions exist for everyone, when they learn to see, and learn to communicate, what they see.

Hmmm I think this guy is possibly on the verge of inventing the dehumidifier

Thankyou sir we all willl do it

The things we share with each other will make a difference for all of us finding solutions for life for all humanity. All yall my dearest friends. We can overcome if we are united in the survival of the human race.

Konstantin, your experiments are a great start. Take all the negative comments here and turn them into challenges as to how you can improve your design. Maladyetz

you will need a lot of colder temperatures to actually achieve condensation.... if it actually produces water it probably makes a lot less than expected....

My sister uses a dehumidifier and has to empty it on a regular basis. Perhaps that technology would work....

can we use routine shadow nets for catching fog

Thank you for this important invention at a really b important time for this

I'd like to see more about his project! Looks great! Stats would be nice to solidify the presentation too.. like, I'd like to know for a specified size of a machine, how much water you can retrieve over a given time and how he machine is put together. I hope it's as awesome as it seems and it catches on. Turning humidity into drinking water sounds like a promising idea. I bet that if this were to become mainstream, that we'd learn to be careful about the amount of water we take out of the air.

What capacity in gom or m3/ hr is a typical plant?

water the most powerful solvent on earth.

Yah it's called dehumidifier, wich has been around for a long time.

I need more information about this project

Nice idea in theory, but this relays on the ground around the copper coil staying cool. It won’t stay cool for very long as due to the heat transfer from the copper to the soil and the temperature of the copper coil and the soil around the coil will quickly even out rendering the device useless.

for the amount of energy expended to operate the cooling station, they could make the effort truck the water from halfway across the country

how simply have you explained a complex science! God bless you.

Thanks for ground breaking tech.

Yes we'll done, next step is trying to make it scalable

How can I contact him. My village has been so long facing water crisis.

bigger machine more production. Of course is depindant on the humidity of the air wherever you are using it.

How can i contact you im from Nuevo leon Mexico and we don´t have water to drink we are living a nigthmare PLEASE HELP US!!!!!!

Well the cooling from the 4 feet below the earth is about 56 F so that part works, since most dew points in FL anyway are above that temp; the mass of air moved across cooled fins or tubular coils is a question. I am getting about 3.2 oz h2o/day from a peltier wafer system using less than 100w (poor but i plan to make it even better like 30w and get more water too) , but it can be scaled up to get 32 oz/day by just increasing number of wafer pods to 10, right? So a 45cfm cpu fan = 1.27m*3/min of air & would give you ~27 ml water "IDEALLY" every minute, real world probably much less. So its theoretically possible? I'd estimate about only 1 ml water per minute in real world, but that does add up, and with scale up to 100x more units IF cheap enough could become viable.

Great Idea....so it is turbine run by solar compress the air to the ground to get condense and turned to water. It may work in coast area where humidity is high but not in dry desert air...but still there is alot of technical issues to be solved like backup pressure will the turbine be able to overcome it...remember it is mini solar.. Thank you for great Idea...!!!

What do you need to mass produce water in 2022?

This reminds me of a similar invention made by Edward Linacre from Australia called the "Airdrop Irrigation" back in 2011. After he won the Dyson award, no one has ever heard from him again. Now THIS came up, with a similar design and concept! What gives?? And there isn't any demonstration video from any of these inventions. So I'm very skeptical if it actually works! And I also suspect plagiarism from all this.

Harvesting water from the air is always a bad idea , if we do so how we get rains ? if air doesn't have moisture,

The whole idea of harvesting air and turning it into water is indeed great, but we can never get it to work as we are now. Our technology is simply not advanced enough. Sorry, Thunderf00t had to slap me this reality.

BS, this is either a scam or nobody has done the relatively simple numbers. Better to scale up a little and try to develop solar to treat impure water sources like saline groundwater, seawater etc. i.e. small efficient desalinators.

Can you give us technical details to us.

Konstantin, your caring is wonderful, and your motivation very admirable. Could you provide us with a complete and detailed diagram of how the air is made to flow in and the water is extracted out after condensation? You are an inspiring young man.

Would this work in a tropical climate, as the ground doesn't cool off as much?

Proof of concept is easy. All the rest is much harder work.

Skip the usual story about people needing water and his great idea from water on a cold glass: 3:43.

just use a dehumidifier, it collects moisture out of the air lol.

Congrats, you invented a dehumidifier that barely works. You can buy those on Amazon. Hook one up to some solar panels and you will have much more water.

Congrats! This is one of the few products that will really change the world. Where can I pre-order one?

Does capturing moisture from air affect the monsoon patterns? In India, summer is immediately followed by monsoon - rainy season. Won't capturing moisture create a disruption in the water cycle?

great job. im glad someone came out with this. i have my own created machine makes water from thin air as well. bit different. wonder what will happen mix the 2.

I would like to help however I can with this !

He's so damn nervous, but great idea!

I am in Indonesia. You can come here, and find lots of spot that there's source of clean water.

my contribution to the science of survival in a changing world. With God's blessing I post these innovative solutions to problems survival in the next hundred years on earth.

Here is a magnificent idea to help solve (at least in part) a massive worldwide problem.

Brilliant

Using the earth is pretty smart.

geez , another 8 minute video that could of been done in less than 2 .

Why not put wind turbine and to push air. It will be always keep working.

hi there... how I can get this stuff. .. contact me I will be the first one to buy and try it at home. our country have poor fresh water. .. thanks

If you've designed your experiment and published your findings I'd like to see the work but thermodynamics says "ya, probably not". Yes, dehumidification for moisture capture is nothing new: It's also crazy expensive in terms of energy to cool enough air. Additionally, the soil (big important variable) can only absorb so much energy from heat exchange before its temperature rises and said heat exchange effectively stops. Local conditions including ambient wind, temperature, humidity, soil temperature at depth etc. are critical variables. It's not going to provide water at the scale you'd need for a village, or even a family of five. You might be better off digging ground-stills (also known as a solar-still or moisture-traps) and collecting both dew and soil moisture; they're simple, low-tech. and while also not likely to provide sufficient water for a family would still represent a more content sensitive engineering approach.

Sorry I am such a dork for phrase and wordsmithery but a better, more clever title for this vid would've been "how to make water out of thin air" lol! Aside from that, Watching young millennials, often called entitled and self absorbed, use the resources that they have, that no other generation before them has had access to, FOR THE BETTERMENT OF OTHERS LESS FORTUNATE THEN THEMSELVES really gives me hope that they maybe ARENT ALL lost, weak, or maladjusted! Its so wonderful to see them ACTUALLY USE what they have been given so freely to help others, rather than post another freakin selfie, or liking/posting/tweeting whatever "cause d'jour" that will give them the most limelight as someone who cares.. What a relief to find that they arent ALL like that!!!!!!! Kudos kids!!

air condioceners do the exact same thing

So they spend 6.5 minutes a day?

Clean water producers wouldn't allow that :).

Rain is water from air

So, did he manage to beat the laws of thermodynamics ?

Help the reservations out west!

LMAO

Bro air doesn't turn into water, it's oxygen which is condensed and turns into water. U like scientists think over it.

Watch at 1.5 × speed! X

If your invention works, why don't you have DIY videos on how to make one instead of trying to profit. You don't care about people having water. You care about how much money you can make. You're no humanitarian.

I have designed a system that pulls water out of the air using no energy to achieve this. The only energy required is to distill the water, this can be accomplished with any source of heat, even solar concentrator. The energy required for distillation can even be lowered using vacuum distillation. Not only this, but I also have recently combined this with a very simple way to generate electricity. Clean water, and electricity (on a smaller scale, yes) sufficient for the needs of a family. Not a solution to provide these for a city or small community. But each family could cheaply and easily have a device for their own use. I need a person skilled in CAD to work up a schematic. And someone to help me set up a crowd funding campaign to get this off the ground.

Good job. continue to improve it, u could be 'The One' who saved the world.

When you have not studied thermodynamics.

And all the dust, germs, pollen and virus in the water is a bonus.

Where are the numbers??? How far is this device from Carnot efficiency? What can you get from it right now? Where are the strongest losses? How many days has this guy been drinking solely from his machine? Sorry. Not persuasive.

WHY WOULD YOU LIVE MILES AWAY FROM THE DRINKING WATER?

No one can make water.

This, and other "We Do Great Things" presentations are seriously and, I sometimes do believe, deliberately lacking in technical specs or clear demonstrations of a fully working system. Grand proposals, but show me the proof of function, long term, with available raw data and whatever drawbacks discovered.

1:08 40 Billion Hours Every Year is like saying 50000 minutes for every hour😂 What a grave mistake was that

These would be great in hurricane disaster locations where everything is saturated and humid, yet people die of thirst.

Moses West had been already out there with a contraption that... Hevwas all over the internet. If you do not acknowledge othet inventors that preceded you. Your claims are suspect.

Don't start your "talk" with a sob story to try to promote a bullshit product.

3:08 *CLOSETED BELIEVER?* *_Wanted to say "created" but to avoid prejudice & due to fear of being burned at the stake by the atheists he stifled himself & said "inspired by nature"._*

40 bil work hours a day , every day... imagine what those people could do if they didn't do this . Yeah, i can imagine,: they would be looking for jobs, losing their homes, etc :)

get to the message with all these story 4 hours latter

Good information but it is painful to listen to him. Get to the f#@king point! Here's a new word....brevity.

Not sure why you 5hink Egypt dosent need You!!!??? We have lots of desert areas that could benefit from this... Welcome!!!

Who let this shit on TED?