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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew Wind Turbine Makes Drinking Water
http://www.newser.com/story/152849/new-wind-turbine-makes-drinking-water.htmlA French inventor may have an answer for the millions of people who scramble to find fresh drinking water each day: a wind turbine that literally pulls H2O from the air. Marc Parent, head of Eoie Water, designed the turbine while living in the Caribbean and enduring water shortages. His solution is called the WMS1000, which gathers moisture from the air and turns it into drinking water, ABC News reports. On average, each unit creates over 62 liters per hour when the temperature is 75 Fahrenheit with 45% humidity, according to the company website.
"Let me highlight this word: CREATE," says Eole Water executive Thibault Janin. "All existing solutions (wells, desalination, lakes/rivers pumping, etc) only treat an existing source of water." He adds that the world's water scarcity will affect more than the 150 million possible WMS1000 customers; household water needs are also growing, so Eole Water is seeking other solutionsespecially affordable ones. Once testing is complete, each WMS1000 should cost $600,000 and last for 20 years.
http://www.eolewater.com/
30K per year? Kinda pricey, but maybe improvements will bring down the costs.
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New Wind Turbine Makes Drinking Water (Original Post)
TalkingDog
Aug 2012
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2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)1. that is exciting though
hopefully it will eventually come way way down.
Water plus the wind turbine benefit. GE ain't a gonna like this.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)2. Cool!
meow2u3
(24,761 posts)3. It won't work in the desert
But it sure holds promise in tropical areas.
MadHound
(34,179 posts)4. If this goes into mass usage, I can see it causing problems,
Sucking water vapor out of the air in one places denies rain to another places. Actions have consequences, hopefully people think this one through.
progressoid
(49,964 posts)7. That's a problem regardless.
We're always using someone elses water.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)5. Imagine. Nt
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)6. We need to look at every possible answer to the water crisis!
Desalination, water recycling (both greywater and industrial water), and ideas like this!