Comments on: Wind Turbine for Creating Water

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Sun, 20 May 2012 14:05:00 +0000

sorry, that’s just the quote, not my statement.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Sun, 20 May 2012 14:03:00 +0000

good points

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Sun, 20 May 2012 14:02:00 +0000

haha, yeah, of course. but ‘create’ has a nice tone to it and think the process is clear

By: Jerven Bolleman

Jerven Bolleman — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:41:00 +0000

Seems very similar to the long running http://dutchrainmaker.nl/ turbines

By: Sexycosy

Sexycosy — Sat, 05 May 2012 12:19:00 +0000

Zach, you say air “is heated by a generator to make steam”… R u sure?
The water molecules in the collected air are already in vapor form. The condenser is enough, just like in the A/C units that inspired the idea. No steam generator there!
U need water to make steam, not air. If u heat air u get hot air! lol

By: Ross

Ross — Sat, 05 May 2012 06:33:00 +0000

Good point. Long intake/outtake pipes for the desalination pipes then and spreading the green in from the coast starting with cities. It is already happening.

By: Ronald Brak

Ronald Brak — Fri, 04 May 2012 23:20:00 +0000

This could be very useful for things like providing safe drinking water in remote arid regions. However, anywhere near the sea or other source of salt water, more drinkable water could be produced by using the wind turbine to produce electricity to power reverse osmosis desalination.

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 04 May 2012 22:46:00 +0000

This sort of concept on a large scale mightn’t actually be very good for the environment. Water vapor that was previously in the air, perhaps being a critical source of H2O for something – would instead be extracted from the air leaving it bone dry.

But then again, desal also has negative effects on the environment as well.

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 04 May 2012 22:43:00 +0000

It’s nothing more than a mere grammatical technicality. Of couse you can ‘create water’ from water vapor, but of course scientifically you can’t. Anyway, we’ve got more important things to worry about.

Tomayto, tomahto.

By: jburt56

jburt56 — Fri, 04 May 2012 21:38:00 +0000

It’s important to bring this up because naysayers carp about the high cost of energy storage and ignore ways you can get around it.

By: anderlan

anderlan — Fri, 04 May 2012 20:07:00 +0000

Right, water is cached, unlike power in the current grid. Therefore using intermittent renewable power for producing fresh water is a no-brainer.

By: jburt56

jburt56 — Fri, 04 May 2012 18:29:00 +0000

Storing the resulting water is far cheaper than storing electricity.

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 04 May 2012 18:28:00 +0000

I’d love to see solutions like this hooked up to drip feed irrigation to green vast tracts of the Middle East and North Africa. Although I assume driving desalination with wind or solar would be more efficient.

By: Iain Burns

Iain Burns — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:11:00 +0000

You cant create water…. what you describe is collecting water (that is already in the air)… Regards