Comments on: WATAIR: Turning Air Into Water

By: kebozarth

kebozarth — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:22:44 +0000

How much and from where can I purchase?

By: kebozarth

kebozarth — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:57:55 +0000

OK; how much is it and from where do I get it?

By: polaris

polaris — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:31:30 +0000

I keep hearing it… and I’ve been thinking the same thing, surface area is the problem.
But instead of making it bigger, there is another way to make the surface area greater without increasing its size: make it a fractal!
If you think about it, your pyramid design would lend itself perfectly for a Sierpinski Triangle type fractal design; but inverted.
I would take the upside-down pyramid that you have, and then like the S. Triangle, subdivide it into 4 smaller pyramids. Put another upside-down pyramid attached to the first in the middle, so that its corners connect to the midpoints of the sides of the main pyramid. Repeat this process until you end up with a shape that resembles the S. Triangle except that instead of the removed sections, you have more nets there that resemble successively smaller versions of the first. Work would need to be done to determine how many times the process should be repeated. Either the cost exceeds a limit, or a it no longer makes a noticeable increase in performance.

Since they will all drain into the main pyramid, there is no reason to add more drainage tubing, but there may be a need (for structural reasons) to include more piping to keep the pyramids shape.

I’d love to see how much it increases the water intake, my bet is you go up by a factor.

By: Martin van Veenendaal

Martin van Veenendaal — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:06:07 +0000

I heard that there is a product which collects water from dew and looks like a spiderweb. Probably made of silk. Korean guys were spotted with it but the couldn’t communicate about it. It fits nearly in a small photofilm box. Does anyone know the name, brand or producer of this? Please let me know.

Martin van Veenendaal, Holland

By: Komal Madam

Komal Madam — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:49:02 +0000

Send information

By: tibebwa

tibebwa — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:02:17 +0000

I am looking for help in finding a real water catching system for night-time dew and a pretty resident cloud that sits on top of a mountain in Central Ethiopia. We have a project there where there is 600 monks living on top of the mountain and the only water is collected from the roof tops and channeled into communal storage tanks. If there was an inexpensive realistic way of collecting water from nighttime moisture, ( I have seen the drips falling from the trees up there!), please can anyone out there give me some realistic solutions. Everything has to be carried up the 9 kms hike up the mountain, and resources are few and far between, so bearing this in mind maybe someone knows a realistic way of collecting water from the air….. Love, joy and peace, from Ethiopia

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:45:01 +0000

we want to buy wateraie, it is very useful for us . please tell us how to get it .thanks!

Jessica

By: george dibble

george dibble — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:34:38 +0000

not yet – is any one interested in a machine that makes air into water? prototyp is done getting ready to lauch – my phone is 1 574 992 8112

By: Timothy Nichols

Timothy Nichols — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:28:16 +0000

WatAir is an amazing and innovative device that has, so far gone massively underutilized. However, the potential it wields is tremendous. It has the capacity to solve the current world wide water crisis due to its uniquely effective nature.

By: harvey peritt

harvey peritt — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:01:43 +0000

I would like to know if the 48 liters per day was computed or experimentally determined.
Relationships developed by Nusselt can be used to determine concentration rate.

Rate of dew collection can be increased by using black or white metallic surfaces that
face the cold night sky.Amount of condensation is site specific and would depend on daytiime
temperature and RH as well as sky temperature at night.

By: Basava

Basava — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 15:57:03 +0000

The problem with these marvellous inventions is if they are not commercially viable they will end up as some college report in some archives of some university for ever and will never become popular.

By: James hawthorn

James hawthorn — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:07:21 +0000

Brilliant ! Bravo Corey and Malka for this invention. Creating water where there is “none”. Fabulous. This know-how must be exploited the maximum and right now.

By: bernard delbaere

bernard delbaere — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:14:12 +0000

The idea of “dew catching” is not new.

As producer of rachel knitted PE monofil cloth, we supplied our cloth for similar purposes.

Some years ago I heard of projects in Yemen and in Chili.
Please have a look at http://www.fogquest.org.

The structures of WATAIR look nice and that is a plus to the end-users.
They don’t have to start designing, it exists and looks great.

By: CHARLES MORENO

CHARLES MORENO — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:01:49 +0000

DO YOU FRANCHISE YOUR WATAIR PLEASE REPLY

By: Aaron Grow

Aaron Grow — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:20:20 +0000

As a kid I saw a TV documentary that showed beetles in the Sahara Desert using their own bodies as dew collecters. If a beetle in the Sahara can do it I think we could do it, too.

Lack of resources should not be a problem, using them efficiently is.