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More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/30/breakthrough-wind-turbine-produces-drinking-water/
What if your source of electricity also gave you clean drinking water?
Thats the promise of new technology developed by the French engineering firm Eole Water, first conceived in the late 90s by a man who collected water from his air conditioner. He reasoned that if an air conditioner could help him accumulate water, so could other types of machines, so he set about merging the production of electricity and water.
Today, that dream is alive and well. Eoles turbines are currently undergoing rigorous tests in Abu Dhabi following months of development and fine tuning in France. The company says that each turbine is capable of producing up to 1,000 liters of clean drinking water per day, or about 62 per hour, simply by filtering moisture out of the air and funneling it to a storage tank below.
Thibault Janin, Eoles director of marketing, told CNN reporter Eoghan Macguire that the turbines can cost up to $790,000, and that the company is targeting poor, water-starved regions like Africa, South America and Indonesia first.
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(40,416 posts)Giving people potable water!!!! The next thing they'll be doing is bathing in it!!!!!
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(12,017 posts)it produces 350l/day...
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(2,033 posts)Pull moisture out of the air, and the air has less capacity to hold heat...