I sure don’t know, but the estimate of 100 L (per day) seems surprisingly high, even if a fairly large surface area and best conditions. Sorry to be so cynical, but would love to see a prototype to verify the averages collected.
Very interesting project. You mentioned in the video that there are similar initiatives going around the World. The Billboard signs that collect water in Brazil is already active. This is great news for you I believe because it shows that there is a fully working concept that would prove your concept. Best of luck.... Here's the video from Brazil: UTEC - Potable Water Generator
I used to go to work in the morning and every morning I opened the bottom valve of an air compressor tank and about 2 gallons of water would shoot out. The air was at 100 psi and the water condensed out overnight.
Liked the simplicity and low wind drag-- are there any plans available to build a scaled down test version? And, what is exactly "hydrophobic material" (in plain english), what are the characteristics, properties? This design seems to be more practical than the vertical nets which can be blown down under strain winds.
Plastic material, or plastic mesh. SImilar to plastic mesh filer. Plastic so the water doesn't get absorbed in the material. Problem with this is evaporation of the water that is being produced. They should really have a working model.
Team GLAS: Have you tasted a prototype yet? There are models of nets And screens in various configurations that do produce water, as I’m sure you know, and some of them have been pressed pretty heavily in the service. It sure would be nice to hear about your test products, and how this particular configuration stands up to windshear. Your model appears to have a much higher contact surface ratio, and very solid anchoring, but a change in winter direction, and high wind velocity could make a huge difference. I do hope you get back to me about that.
Team GLAS: Have you tasted a prototype yet? There are models of nets And screens in various configurations that do produce water, as I’m sure you know, and some of them have been pressed pretty heavily in the service. It sure would be nice to hear about your test products, and how this particular configuration stands up to windshear. Your model appears to have a much higher contact surface ratio, and very solid anchoring, but a change in winter direction, and high wind velocity could make a huge difference. I do hope you’ll respond. Your design is unlike the other set ups in several aspects, and it would be fascinating to know how the performance is, and about any tweaks that you have to make.
Hi, I'm a mechanical engineering student, and I LIKE your idea, I wonder if I can do the same here in the Philippines as you know, we are a developing country and it would be of help for those who need clean water especially in the poor region. As for our final project in our university, We'd like to use this concept/idea and make a thesis out of it. I am wondering how we can improve this in terms of design, etc. Thank you. :)
The Philippines has a very wet monsoon season. I suggest that you "Google" and/or enter those words in RU-vid. You will find techniques for capturing huge amounts of water and storage methods for homes and farming. India has been harvesting rainwater for thousands of years. Fog harvesting is best for very dry regionsand high altitudes. Sorry that this post is 2 years later than yours.
do you know any serious company dealing such kind of projects, I would like to use similar technique to clean the air from humid at the inlet of the gas turbine air combustion systems, method is same, but ultimate goal different though
New to this subject , could I just go to a hardware store buy a big roll of fine netting to build a home made water dew collector/condensor , in case of emergency like an earthquake , then give my neighbors a few sheets of this material to funnels into a big bowl in the morning so they dont die of dehydration? or is it more complicated than that ? thanks for any replies.
This kind of idea isn't practical because you won't get enough water. In a survival situation you'll expend more energy building a dew condenser than it's worth worth.
@@teddyruxpin3811 : Perhaps. But if it comes to that, nobody says you have to actually planned a pole or two or four. Sometimes there are enough existing structures that you can tap into, and once it’s built, it’s low maintenance.
Grand conjunct- how did your pilot project go? I have seen videos where people actually have these functioning, almost like a mesh tarp with very reinforced edges and eyelets to which they a fix spring hooks to attach them to the posts. At least one seems to have reinforced triangular shapes running through the mesh. I’d be very interested in hearing about your results. Please do get back to me about that, and I’d also like to hear about the environment in which you use it. There is at least one more video out there that uses a net made of a mesh that looks like woven or possibly crocheted probably propylene- very much like baling twine. That could be a good use of bailing twine, Made over the course of an extended period of time, as time permits, until you’re ready to run your final project, if you haven’t done it already. I mentioned this because although baling twine is getting a little pricey, if you happen to know any agricultural workers who have baling twine on hand as a matter of your normal course of business, that might be a good source of free material from which to work. It occurs to me that in terms of windshear, if your sale or net or screen were erected in the same manner as a flag on a pole, then it wouldn’t be a big deal to take it back down in the event that adverse conditions were underway. Just my two cents worth, but since a person with theoretically put one of these things up because of economic conditions, well that might be an easy and low tech way to put one of these things up, such that there’s less of a vulnerability, And far less time to be spent on maintenance.
@@daphneraven6745 I Daphne , I posted this question over a year ago on several videos and didnt get much help /responses , so I abandoned the idea , I was just thinking of easy ways to feed and hydrate my starving / dehydrating neighbors during the apocalypse , but it looks like few in the survival community are thinking in community terms. thank you for the ideas though
@@grandconjunct : Yes I saw that. I was thinking that you would have done a pilot project to see how it works, that’s why I sent you the comment. What did you find that works for you?
My idiotic opinion that much can be saved and or improved with this desing. We know that water in liquid form because of gravity falls straight down then the sail does not need to be inclined not even one degree, also only one mast or single pole is need with a horizontal top and 1 bottom canal slightly slanted towards the reservoir or pipe with 2 corner ground anchors.... I calculate the cost of materials, transportation and installation could be cut to less than half ; )
it is a good idea, however, how are you going to do to keep the surface clean, as it is going to be in open environment, you should expect the water to be very dirty. no for drinking water, that's for sure.
That's a very valid concern Carlos. We came to the same problem which is why we are going to include a filter on the reservoir where the water is collected.
+Team GLAS the filter concerns me. For this to be a serious effort to address global water needs, the filter would have to be long lasting and cheap to maintain or replace. I have concerns that the ongoing filters needs would be seen as an ongoing income stream, when something as simple and long lasting as a sand column might work just as well. For more arid regions, or sites with higher water needs, i would think you could incorporate solar elements in the sail with some tubing to form a cooling loop. with a thermoelectric element and one pump you could cool the whole sail and widen your water harvesting window.
Wherever humidity is then yesm butnsome climates have more humidity than others. Its at dusk and at dawn when you get the collection as temperatures drop. Thats as far as my knowledge goes. Hope it helps
