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  • How can I get one?

  • the Link takes you NO WHERE......why?

  • were destroying the planet and you people think were gonna make the sea too salty with desalinization plants?

  • This is just spam to get you to click on the included link. Don"t click on the link. There is NO information about this at that link.

  • Something in me said .." They are using a hypnoptic --technique."

  • THis one is probably not feasible, but at least it is not theoretically impossible. It seems to take humid air with (and this is crucial) kinetic energy to do work by impinging on the blades, and going through (I suppose) a slight pressure drop. Therefore a miniscule amount of water should precipitate out (if the air is already saturated). So long as it costs me no energy input (it is a passive process), what do I care if it takes weeks for a cup?

    Possible, but not truly useful. Scale up?

  • Its a venture capital. Pay no attention.

    These types of scams end up doing more to hurt renewable energy causes than promote them. Basically they do it for publicity and donations, but mostly grants and venture capital, and then disappear or fade away.

    On the other hand, if we refuse to do original research to discern fact from fiction, perhaps we deserve to be stuck on coal and oil for the rest of our lives. The only thing that holds back the real renewable energy technologies is us.

  • its a dehumidifier basically and the pumps are powered by the vawt wind blades

  • what about dust. dry up all that fine water

  • you need very humid air to do this also bad video no sound...

  • Hmm all I saw was a nice animation?

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  • It will throw away energy beause there is no recuperator in the system.

  • Exciting concept.

  • It was proven to work very well. The business behind the sale and distribution of it went into receivership. 'Why' I don't know. I was informed that a device with an opening of 2 x 2m opening could optimally collect 7500 Lt per day. Consider that it can be built to any scale. Imagine really large ones, or clusters of them. A lot of arid land could be easily rejuvenated. They could reestablish forests with them and then move them on once the forests create their own favourable weather.

  • the magnetic panels and tesla coils, and the spinning wind capture is only part of it, what they did with the site? they disapeared, I guess, it didn't work huh...

  • It could work where there is a good ocean breeze. Somalia's drought is right along the coast currently.

  • All you have to be is near the sea. Desalination plants are too expensive in comparison, I think. Besides, desalination plants pump back the remaining salt back into the sea, thus, increasing the sea's salinity. This condenses vapor that naturally left the sea. I don't see how so many people are being negative about it.

  • @Abdallah2319 The majority of people around the world really don't think for themselves. They are programmed to believe what they are told since childhood and things or ideas that are outside this programmed sense of their world induces fear. We are all subject to this on some level. It is a hard line to tow to deprogram oneself to become truly open minded to where one is thinking for oneself at every moment. This is why new ideas can face such mammoth rejection.

  • @Abdallah2319 people are being negitive because it has potential and they didnt think of it or they just dont understand the concept.

  • @Abdallah2319 people are being negitive because it has potential and they didnt think of it or they just dont understand the concept.

  • If there was any evidence that "water" existed, this man would be a millionaire. Water was debunked. Only retards believe that tripe. I'm amazed people are really that stupid.

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  • @iamlightagain A common misconception is that humans need to drink water in order to survive. I drink orange juice and thus have debunked the aodfiuaoigudgusdiogusdiougsduu­di aosdugiosugosdiugiosdugodi sodiugodisugsdioug osidguosigusdiogusdiogudsgious­d osdiugo sdiugodsigu sdoiug osdiug oidsug osdiu gousd oguosdgiudgiousgi oisd gosdutgioud.

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  • It would be interesting to see the energy requirements of this device vs. a desalination plant, especially in low humidity environments where it most needed.

  • .... so it's a dehumidifier

  • vertical turbines to power compressor cooler?

    just use normal wind turbine blades to power compressors instead

  • When did we run out of water?

  • @johnnnyreb51 Obviously you haven't seen Somalia and you have never saw Ethiopia back in the 80s.

  • This will work fantastic for most places but considering that some communities are pretty dry lets say for example Iraq. During the Iraq war water was necessary for the troops so they enlisted a company called Terralab to make these water generators which use brine to collect water from the surrounding air. It worked at humidity levels as low as 15%. Although it still needed power but that necessity can be filled by renewables.

  • The latest tests showed that the windmill with a 2x2m opening could produce up to 7500 Lt per day. You cannot dehumidify the atmosphere with this device. There are 3100 cubic miles of drinking water in the atmosphere around the world at all times. Unfortunately this machine is going nowhere. The business behind its development went into receivership a while ago and of course there is no government support for this ingenious device.

  • Could work near or on the sea hehehe

  • This is great, you can rob those further down the prevailing winds of life-giving water simply by placing an assload of these things up. You have just made dehydration a tool of war.

  • @baadshepherd YOU MADE ME THIRSTY.

  • Join VSO go to Africa you will see Africans distill alcohol from a fermenting brew using a pan and a lid? Some also use a solar still to get water but it takes to long to produce enough for your daily requirement? 

  • @zonkozonko Why does every sentence you write end with a question mark?

  • @2012listo A good point? I do not Know? Well I must have a bad habit? of finishing sentences with a Question mark Note taken, Must do better! Thanks for pointing it out. Any way solar stills are a minimal survival tool for producing water not sustainable.

  • what. we could sell this to desert countries if it is does what it claims

  • @carelessaim It doesn't claim anything. There's no sound.

  • what. we could sell this to desert countries

  • Now only if they could solve world hunger.

  • Dont think it will work,,,

    There will only be tubulence at the air inlet, and most of the air will just pass on the outside.

  • Wow that is actually a god idea, but there are a few flaws in the energy resource. You need to power this machine on sunlight's energy.

  • Use heat from the sun instead of coolant. (Metal solar heater to block the air) Instead of cooling the air with coolant let the sun provide heat to cause steam, that would save more money, IMHO. Wouldnt work at night though.

  • i could do better by 35%

  • @greenearthnazi20204u well then do it and lets see it

  • all its doing is harvesting condensation, ( that is the result of refrigeration) looks as if there are enough turbines there to produce enough eelectricty to maaaybe run a small compressor. However, there are obviously way more evaporator coils in the model than needed for efficiency. Great ideas !! now all you need is capital xD

  • Whats the rollers on the front for?

  • ithis would not work, it took all day to collect a glass of water.

  • i could work, it already works

    but its not a source, its a colector

  • This invention or rather concept design is bullshit.

    It was an episode winner on the ABC (Aussie) TV program The New Inventors, that was 2007, it shouldn't of even been on TV as it was an untested concept design. If this bullshit crock of crap is so good why haven't they at least built a prototype to prove their BULLSHIT claims they can make large quantities of water from thin air.

  • @dowelplug - Similar systems are in place in several locations on the African continent. As the technology improves and the efficienies are raised, perhaps they will become more than marginally useful. The technology has been in place in Africa for use in early A.M. winds (which are more humid) for over 11 years. I don't recall them saying that it makes "large quantities" of water. Try to keep this in mind- even a glass of CLEAN water is a real blessing to some of those people.

  • @dowelplug why all the foul language? As I see it atleast it is a try at creating something useful can you say the same or just post slandeing others? Grow up and/or get involved

  • @IXianGriffin

    Hello Ixian Griiffn, firstly go and get stuffed, your a wanker.

    Dont every reply to my posts again,

    I dont care about you or anything you have to say, what I said is true if you dont like piss off.

  • @dowelplug first ...what can you do about it?...not a damn thing... even if you lived next door to me you wouldn't do a damn thing. Second you can state things in posts without being rude and using foul language or maybe you can't clearly a sign of never learning correct mannners or behavior. lastly again... what you going to do about it... nothing because you are safely tucked away in your little hobbit hole just pointing fingers and cursing others. got any useful info to share? didn't think so

  • What would the water taste like if you worked this thing in a room filled with 20 people that farted all day?

  • there is also the problem of the heating source because in order to make water, you need an ignition source.

  • ah ... I don't get any sound on this post ???

  • They harvest water in Newfoundland by putting up screen looking things in the fog.

    They get a fair amount of water every day without any energy consuption at all.

  • There are already companies who've designed and built water harvesting technology for use in the deserts, and it's more advanced than this. the one I've seen will not only make the water, the unit has a small shower built into it and a system for filling water bags to hand out; I think it even sterilizes the water and fills aseptically. I believe it uses the old spray gun operators favorite friend, condensation as a result of compression.

  • @lexichronicle2 Ok well I live in the desert and except or maybe 5 days a year the air is so dry that you can exercise outside and never know your sweating b/c it evaporates that fast, so pulling water out of air in the desert. Highly unlikely.

  • @adamslurch71 Have you tried doing it in the middle of the night? There are also regions where the moist air comes in over specific land features. Particularly if you have winds blowing in from the sea.

  • @adamslurch71 just because sweat evaporates quickly, it doesn't mean there isn't harvestable moisture in the air. The sweat on your skin is effectively at a humidity of 100% and it's only a very thin layer, so it's going to evaporate quickly. You must have seen the idea of 'solar stills' on survival programs. Dig a hole, cover it with polythene, wait. The moisture is there, it's just not very concentrated.

  • Isn't this just like collecting water off of the coil from your A/C condenser unit?

  • @ALLEN80Z28 no..only a troll from the gop would try to minimize

    this design and device. shoo....go away...drool after the tundra queen

    or whatever gopers do...

  • Whoa! Must. Know. MOrE!

  • dune desert planet

  • when the water starts to run out in the places where oil is coming from, lets see just ow much a gallon of petrol costs then.

  • @kkhhoona water will never run out! read your bible! mainly genesis 10

  • Just make sea water available inland thru piping and then people can create homemade gravity filtration and salt collector.

    Other benefits are inland saltwater aquaculture, forest fire prevention, less costly toilet flushing and even desert mangrove reforestration.

  • i find it hard to believe water will ever vanish from our planet from us drinking it and using it to bathe ,water is an element that makes up everything on our planet and always has we have not received any more nor do we have any less uless we sell it to aliens it will always be here as ice water or a gas

  • @283inc Water is not an element it is a molecule. The elements for water are hydrogen and oxygen. It does not make up "everything on our planet". Most of the water on earth is not readily usable which is why water is running out they are talking about the stuff we grow and drink with. Go feed your plants ocean water for a day and you'll see the problem. Try watching the discovery channel more you might learn somethings that isn't bs.

  • @therelimic Don,t worry the global warming will free up more water for us to use.

    And removing salt can be done with gravity so whats your issue with my comment.

  • yea and if these things sucked the water out of the air a lot of plants would probobly dry up.

  • It's designed to use the turbines to compress the refrigerant .Then the refrigerant is used to condense the water from the warmer air.The water will still need to be purified because of airborne pollutants.This is not to pump and/or sterilize ground water.

  • Peltier elements?

  • i think that is a good idea. see with is more effient. compressor or Peltier elements to see with one to choose.

  • That's why they burried all the uranium in nevada, if it just gets hot, water will then thusly condense.

  • From what I understand, the unit acts like a windmill powering the compressor of a refrigerator, which causes condensation on the coils. This condensation is collected for use.

    This isn't a terribly bad idea, since it avoids changing kinetic energy to electricity and then back to kinetic (a very lossy process). I do have to wonder if it is better than just pumping water from a well using wind power though.

  • oh, that's not how he says it works at all

  • does this pump water like trees? Does water evaporate at the plates, pulling water up through tiny tubes (like out of an aquifer or up a huge hill). I guess all that stupid turbulence in the air flow inside the thing is to allow most of the water to condense back to liquid before exhaust. Then- it apparently collects as clean water in the ball thing. The windmill portion could do something else. If you try to purify water this way, your capilarries will get crusty and clogged soooo fast.

  • This is designed to produce large volumes of water. It can purify the water on the waydown the tower like candle filters

  • lol, you must think the constructions using magnetic turn wheels etc and then produce free energy, works too.

    this is not the first airco and its definetely not continuous without adding air that has water in it already.

  • this design is intended to produce water, not energy.

    (using "magnet turn wheels" with copper coils DOES produce energy, it's called a generator)

  • @partyshock Where are you from the 18th century or what?

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  • no lol do you know that air conditioners harbour legionares disease in the water that is produced from the air con........and your invention looks simular to air con........

    basically the water will collect germs that are blown inside ...ready to be drunk

  • Did you know the water flowing from your tap is purified sewage? Legionnaire's disease... LOL

  • The water flowing from your tap is pumped from the water table that lies at varying depths just about anywhere you drill a well.But the processes we have now render the sewage water cleaner than tap water.

  • Maybe people don't sense my sarcasm. I'm saying if we have the ability to purify our shit water. Then we have the ability to get rid of the "Legionnaire's disease" someone was complaining about.

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  • It's not a bad idea..but it's banking on the fact that the air will have moisture in it. Low humidity day = low water output.

  • i think these would do great in those big rainforests =p

  • I believe it's a feasible idea. Would love to have one if I were stuck in the desert.

  • turn on the tap for free water wohoo

  • if impovished areas need water wouldn't it be cheaper to give them a shovel and tell them to start digging a well?

  • now that you've contributed so intelligently I wanna see you personally go and hand that shovel yourself.

  • For the cost of this thing a shovel and a buncha paid guys would be a lot more duralbe and reliable is more or less the point I was going for.

  • The key word is "well"; those windmills were used only to pump water, not to cool refrigerant plates and condense the water from the air. This is basically a very efficient wind-powered dehumidifier/ water supply.

  • Turning water into air isn't an invention. Farmers used to do it all the time. Every farm had a windmill in the old days. They hooked it up to a well and had all the water they needed.

  • free energy mean we need to change the power basis to kinetic agergy using magnet. easy just follow the (utube ) the idea from.

  • so it is a larger dehumidifier, it take 5 to 6 hours to generate 2L of water form my house hold size dehumidifier in a humid day, in winter it simply too dry already so how long would it take to make a glass of water in a dry day with this thing???

  • You're not perceiving the problem correctly. Furthermore, you have received 4 thumbs up because your comment is attracting opinion as a result of your miss-perceptions.

    Firstly, your dehumidifier is a very low power machine if its only condensing 2 litres per day.

    Secondly, your dehumidifier runs inside your home - not outside as it would in this video, where it would collect huge amounts of water during the night and at dew point.

  • @foxwuj well, it freaking larger than what you have . ...LOL the simply you can guess what the outcome it will be...larger quantity of water that will be.

  • there is no FREE ENERGY!!

  • Everything is energy in one form or another. The trick is how to transform whatever matter you have chosen cheaply and efficiently using the energy produced to power the process. solar, hydro and wind power are a simple examples of free energy. incinerating our waste instead of fossil fuel power stations is another. We are still in the infant stage of developing these technologies.

  • yes there is. you have to find what works for you.

  • I wonder what effects this would have on the environment. If it was overused, would it not change the humidity? Even a minor effect on climate has huge consequences.

  • No but it wouldn't work where there is not enough humidity, which inconveniently happens to be the same places that could need a device like this...

  • @tommysch Wrong

  • @tommysch the radiator it self is cold enough then even in a desert you can correct water. I've seen condensations on a cup of ice cold water in a glass in Saudi arabia... middle east..the desert of the desert.. then what you are going to tell me? Am I faking God or God is the law of nature?

  • @maxinpains Im not saying that this would not produce water. The question is how much water can it produce in a given time and at what cost per liter per day.

  • @tommysch it must be depends on the humidities in a air. LOL Don't ask me about that point I can't control the weather everyday ! perhaps God can ...lol What cost?? LOL That's a secret.LOL

  • @tommysch Incorrect; there is enough humidity. The actual problem is that it takes too much energy for too little water to be of widespread use.

  • it would have no effect on the climate unless you covered miles and miles and miles of land with these and had them magically all powered fully and running twenty four seven and stored the water they extracted from the air in vast sealed containers.

  • what is the energy source for the cooling? im not getting any audio so if it explains it, thank you for repeating.

  • I'm assuming they are using heat pipes, the same kind you would find in your CPU cooler, these don't need much energy to get high temperature differentials.

  • electricity

    it only makes water not electricity

  • I guess the set of circular turbines moved by the wind generate the electricity allowing the following pannells cool down and condense .

  • Another great invention to be sold to developing countries that have no money anyway?

    If its so great, why not use it yourself?

    I dont get it.

  • you'de dry up the air in the sky..that might have a negative effect

  • That's the first thing that came to my mind while watching this... Hahaha... :)

  • think a lil bit more about that i cant c any problems as the sun will be millions of times more capable of turning the sea water into vapours than this thin turning it back

  • lol...

  • Heat from the sun evaporates water from seas/oceans/etc. Where exactly, do you think clouds come from? :-)

    Though, ... I still think there are some holes here... Definitely going to need a power source. Solar may or may not be a good choice, depending on the power requirements for the cooling system. (Cooling is typically not very efficient.)

  • you still have to suck the water out of somewhere, which is the air and the water vapor right, that comes baack down in rain fall and other important weather cycles, seems it could be dangerous if too many of these were to interrupt areas. Also wouldnt u need power to run refrig? in 3rd world deserts they wont have that.

  • lots of sunlight in deserts, check out sterling solar engines. for the record, you cant dry out the atmosphere, the oceans have a way of replacing the moisture.

  • Mine clouds.

  • It's not first. My dehumidifier in my basement works the same way, but you need too much electricity to get it working and there is not really much water in air in deserts.

  • and what happened if you get to be in a super dry state, like the times my skin breaks out due to the dry air in realy cold weather ?

  • so what makes the water drops appear

  • so it's a fancy video of a dehumidifier, what's the big deal ?

  • would be hand in areas where there is no access to clean water.... as for what is causing the condensation to happen it is probably collecting on the metal plates as the air passes by them they will cool down and if they are cooler than the air the water will collect on the plates... it would work but how well it would work and if id even be worth it is another thing

  • I guess the question is is it more efficient than getting fresh water from other methods? eg. desalinisation.

  • source of water? you mean EXTRACTION of water from air? unless you import more hydrogen from another planet, how else can you create water?

  • it is like recycling.

  • ..dehumidifier.. ?

  • well its not so easy, cuz if some country will dry out wet wind it may totally change weather in near countries

  • excellent consideration.

  • sell it to nasa! they'll need it on mars!

  • NICE! when we use hydrogen cars it could refule water as we drowe!! Yeha

  • It is fine on paper/u-tub

  • "hopefully prove our concept..." - from the site.

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  • maybe it wouldn't work continually in a desert,, but dew harvesting been around those part for a while so there are water collect.

  • Yeah.. but would it work on Mars?

  • why woild we need or want this. we gat rain fallin from the sky. so this would be the second source of free water. nature being the first

  • wonder how this works through the winter months

  • Continuous? Whats if there is very low humidity, then it's not continuous.

  • low humidity doesn't mean no water..

  • That thing wouldn't work in a desert, i really doubt it would work with less than 60% humidity.

  • I'm going to start me a moisture farm with my uncle owen

  • What kind of refrigerants are we talking about here? Freon isn't exactly the most environmentally friendly stuff

  • collects condensation

    nothing big, just moisture in the air, but uses flow dynamics to produce the consensation

  • Captain Obvious strikes again.

  • OMG, THATS MY UNCLE

  • I think that is would not be easy to collect in the desert but for people living in mountains using nets to collect water form fog it could be usefull.

    It could be installed on the roof and collect more water than a much bigger net.

    It also would be easyier to use the water in the house because of the high storagetank

  • I saw this on a webside before:

    The idea is to generate electric power using the wind. A part of the air entering the turbine is cooled down with pelltierelements (putting DC power on those, one side gets hot and the other cooles down).

    The heat is given to the other part of the air.

    If it s getting cold enough the humidity in the air is falling out as waterdrops.

  • Cold is merely the absence of heat, take something hot, give it a path of lesser resistance than that which you want cold, and carry the heat away thus leaving cold, which can then be circulated, I work outside airconditioning is useless as it gives off more heat than it removes, solid state cooling however, divert the removed heat, store it or put a non heat generating load inline and it's no longer pointless to cool outside air.

  • so how does the refrigerant work? doesnt it need some external power source to keep cold?

  • The problem with this is variable atmospheric humidity. The places that are short on water have a dry and arid climate. There has to be a significant amount of humidity to have condensation form. It's like a flashlight that needs light in order to turn on.

  • I can see an advantage here for the person who wants to live off the grid in a remote location

  • FUCK the PO-LICE!

  • taking this a step further includes a self contained solar powered greenhouse, this invention could help end world hunger.