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Post by theshee on Dec 30, 2013 9:42:10 GMT 10
Access to potable water is a problem in much of the world, but the impact is felt especially hard in the coastal deserts of Peru. There, annual rainfall is a mere half an inch, but atmospheric humidity is abundant - about 98 percent. Researchers at Peru's University of Engineering and Technology believed that they could turn that humidity into life-preserving water.
Before this experiment, the people in the villages surrounding Lima got their drinking water from wells. The wells were dirty and polluted, and certainly didn't provide water that anyone would want to drink. Then a billboard went up that would make life easier for everyone in the area.
The "billboard" is actually a sophisticated water collection and purification system. Five generators purify the water collected from the atmosphere and collect them in tanks. The tanks provide enough clean, drinkable water for hundreds of families. The brilliant idea works so well that it has the potential to change lives all around the world.
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Post by brillbilly on Jan 1, 2014 1:14:59 GMT 10
Quote;..The brilliant idea works so well that it has the potential to change lives all around the world.
Then get this up and running world wide,it will save us billions in sending Aid money year after year, that just ends up buying mostly military equipment anyway.!.....Oh and Rice,yeah soz i forgot that,they do get to eat rice!
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Post by quercus on Jan 4, 2014 2:50:50 GMT 10
Hate to be a party pooper, but a similar idea has been used in the desert coastal regions of Namibia for years. Admittedly they don't use bill-boards, but arrangements of nets on which the moisture in the mist coming in off the sea condenses and runs down the mesh into collecting tanks. It apparently occurred to them initially because the local grasses on the dunes used that principle to sustain growth. As the mist condenses on the leaves it eventually runs down to the plant's roots. As is so often the case, nature got there first. Actually, anybody can do the same thing by collecting the condensate from air-conditioning units. So, well done Peru for catching up at last and shame on you for taking so long about it when people were clearly suffering unnecessarily.
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