How Solar Powered Machines are Making Free Water in the Sahara Desert

Same con in a different form, It’s a dehumidifier, and trust me that water is going to taste anything but good.

What a lot off BLABER

Literally cheaper to just buy a truck with a water tank on it.

Is this a joke? That is, at its face, an absurd idea. The energy required to condense water is VERY high....a quick check its 2.3 million joules per liter. 1 joule per second is a watt so 2.3 million joules per liter would be That would be 0.638 kilowatthours per liter. That is a lot of energy. And that is just the absolute limit from physics, in practice you won't be 100% efficient especially not in poor conditions for capturing water vapor, such as low humidity which can be found in...oh...you know...deserts.

That thing is going to pull out like a thimble of water in a day. It would be more energy efficient to use solar energy to power a truck and drive it 2000 miles to drop off some water.

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So it's a dehumidifier with a solar Panel...... In the dryest climate in the world

desalination plants are a better solution

Europe and the Arctic are the regions where temperatures are rising faster than anywhere else on Earth.

I wont be suprised if one day some nerd invents something that can create breathable oxygen in other planets thru solar power

Harvesting water from air will effect desert klima in negative way.... Similer bad idea as destilation of sea water...

These are basically moisture vaporators from Star Wars, like from the moisture farm Luke grew up on.

Wootu is so important

First plant tall spreading shadows various trees from sea coast suitable for Soil&climate of the regions on large scale,using sea water then come inside, repeat the project Make whole regions green, &rainfall from sky

This is cool....

This is cool, but they need real sources of water. That's why I want to build the blue road there.

The only problem I see with this is- maintenance.

Sustainability is an issue that ofttimes falls to the wayside.

In this particular region, I have no trust in the government.

A possibility is to employ full time people to oversee the entire system on a daily basis. A private enterprise can either barter for their services (materials & training), or charge a small fee.

This is doable, because the area is comprised of agriculturalists and husbandry.

Which in turn, leads to small shops with stable price controls, because of the availability of water.
More goods- more jobs- a better lifestyle.

Climate change is a hoax purpetrated by the mega rich. What is really at play is climate ingeniering and natural cyclicer mega climates i

The Solution is staring you right in your face!!!.....Sunny Hot Desert next to an endless body of sea water....Anything come to mind ???....Yes Pipes !!!! + Solar Distillation....All you need is some one who is not Stupid to connect the dots......

African governments near the Sahara desert never intended to introduce ecological management practices. They will need water making technologies to save their populations.

If I understand this setup, it is a solar panel powered dehumidifier on the roof.
Wouldnt it make more sense to mount tbe panels on the roof without the need of a boom truck and power the dehumidifier inside the house? It would be easier to plumb, maintain for purity and simple to replace when the dehumidifier fails. With used panels($50 per 240w panel delivered from Suntan solar) you could run the entire setup for under $1,000 usd. You could scale it up to whatever amount of water you need per day. The payback would be a couple years not 10. Or....you could use the panels to run AC as most people will enjoy thanks to climate change. ACs are giant condensers and produce a large amount of water each day, depending on ambient humidity, time of use and size of unit. Now that is bang for the buck. Oh the condensed condensation is much cooler if you harvest it quickly.
All in all an expensive shell on a dehumidifier the box stores sell. Oh you could skip the solar and just plug it in and pay back would be a couple months!

Those countries could get more water, faster and cheaper, by pumping in water from the nearest sea-coast, and running it through pipes that have passive-solar desalination stills (and solar-powered pumps) every quarter-mile. Those stills would also produce salt, which could be sold at a profit.

Forever? Those will last forever? Free? Those machines were free?

Existen otros proyectos como groasis.
O el de dunas que protegendel viento.
Este sistema esta bien pero los metales se oxidan pero los arboles no.
Asi que es mejor la naturaleza. Talvez al inicio pero sembrando arboles

Forest fires in the American west are an example of deserts expanding or being established.

They need to make this with a pipe than runs straight down into the sand. Put these in the desert and just leave them to force the desert green again by letting all of the water seep into the sand until the water table has to rise

Nothing is free.

海水が手に入るとこで簡単な温室作って地面に海水撒きながら稼働したら凄く水を確保できるのでは?

Nonsense! Even NASA says 37% of the plant greened by extra CO2, and mostly happening in arid areas - with more CO2, plants need LESS water and precip is slightly up too. Read up on Tony Rinaudo working with locals and greening the Sahel. Planting baobabs and shea trees; contour dams; water retaining pits.....the water table RISING!

Cost please

1000 $ solar panel for just 3 liters per hour 😂

Dune moment

They blame we the ppl, boy they got that wrong! 🤔🤔😢

Would you imagine brilliant minds of scientists are spending billions of dollar just to trace the existence of life on planet Mars which is impossible, their eyes are blind to control the desertification which is tantamount of killing of plants and animals and also people, their pride is being challenged to produce life on dead planet is continously proved that they're intelligence is useless

I hope your considerable efforts to fluff this up from 1 min of actual info on system to the entire history of Africa gets you some money off of You Tube. Someone deserves to make something off them.

Yaaaay, I'm soooo excited to see this😊😊😊😊-Xclusyph Icon

Time to think bigger. Much bigger. Day and night collection tech.

Due to CO2 fertilization global tree canopy cover increased by 2.24 million square kilometers between 1982 and 2016 (in that 35 years alone). Leaf area index (LAI) global maps show especially large increases in hot desert, cold desert, tropical, high altitude mountain areas, cities and urban areas, high latitude areas from northern Europe all the way to Kamchatka, then Alaska to Appalachia, much of Australia, etc. . Another study reported: "The greening over the past 33 years (1982-2015) is equivalent to adding a green continent about two-times the size of mainland USA (18 million km2)." The Sahel region (southern Sahara) is greening very nicely thank you. Local projects also exploit the 40% reduction in the water requirement of plants due to increased availability of the most important fertilizer (CO2) and plant various vegetation to convert sandy ground to soil to agricultural land.

The volume of water isn't enough to make a difference given the cost.

They are late a black man named west Moses made this machine already years ago and it put out way more water than that

As a retired mechanical engineer I have used Peltier devices for cooling in my designs. The degree of success that any water from air project is reliant on, is the system design, and detail design . The biggest problem facing this technology is how up scaleable is it, vs cost of a large scale plant. In the poorest regions, where a scaled up system could be most useful, but also where there are no large amounts of money either to afford one. No peltiers are not the solution here. What is needed is a system that can be made locally, using local materials and very low technology being involved. I believe that a very large tent like structure, with air slats , and a central shaft that is dug down deep in the sand, and umbrellar type steel u type columns that go back down and meet the central column will work, using natural condensation. The idea is that under the Blacken out tent, the condensate is created by the intense heat in the tent, and during the night the water droplets that have formed on the metal u shaped channels, run down into the central water collector which is cooled in a large underground tank. The water can be pumped up to the surface using a simple mechanical lift pump. The desert sun which can make air temperatures reach 45 degree celsius in the day, will provide the energy, the greenhouse type tent will capture the moisture, and the coolness of the night will allow the condensate to collect underground. Something long these lines, is a more practical way of extracting moiture from the air.

The title was just an excuse for the blabla bla bla bla bla bla . What a waste of time

Thank you for the encouraging news. I hope everyone is having a great day. Sheila Mink in New Mexico

Simply leaving one of these atmosphere condensers on in a desert region would provide a new environment a new Michael climatology forced certain life actions to erupt

AWGs have been existing for over 20 years and no one is doing a damm to solve anything. Remember: electric cars were built in the 19th century.

Deaths valley is the one not the Sahara the Sahara warm 137 degrees and Death valley is 152 degrees and everything will change zoom because the sun will burn everything in the surface only those who we visited are the only