Dyson Awards: Edward Linnacre's AirDrop Irrigation

At this year's Australian Design Awards, we asked a selection of the James Dyson award finallists to give us their "elevator pitch" describing their inventions. To find out who won the award, visit www.gizmag.com!

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[BlueLotus108]

Absolutely brilliant but... condensate in copper will cause copper to leech from the tubing and is toxic to plants. The pH of the condensate is 4 which has it's own problems to be addressed. changing to stainless steel is a better material to use.

[TheElusive]

AMAZING!! Or, as one guy (so perfectly) said, 'Hey, it worked on Tatooine'. LOL Classic!

[fukyougooglification]

yeah I agree. not as conductive tho and harder to work

[lordboston05]

Can these be purchased anywhere?



[Carmel Teuma Vella]

I would like to know more on how one puts something like this together. Looking at living in the provinces without water wells .

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[David Learn]

"But I was going into Tosche Station to pick up some power converters!"

[DrSwaraj1]

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[DrSwaraj1]

It's a brilliant idea. Copper can be replaced by Strong but less expensive engineering plastic. pH @4 is a factor to be reviewed. Could you make one sample available for experimentation and feed back to you for its application in arid and semi arid areas in India.

[mikrobluess]

only in sufficient amounts, would they be poisonous to higher organisms, at lower concentrations it is an essential trace nutrient to all higher plant and animal life.

In a system proposed here it would be no problem at all, in fact it would be good for the plants.

[MX6Maximus]

more-so if the copper oxidizes. Good call.