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Wind Turbine Extracts Water From Air

Posted by samzenpus on from the making-the-most-of-moist dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Getting access to enough water to drink in a desert environment is a pretty tough proposition, but Eole Water may have solved the problem. It has created a wind turbine that can extract up to 1,000 liters of water per day from the air. All it requires is a 15mph wind to generate the 30kW's of power required for the process to happen. The end result is a tank full of purified water ready to drink at the base of each turbine."

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  1. Windtrap by MrEricSir · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally, we've developed the technology to colonize Arrakis!

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    1. Re:Windtrap by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I was just talking to my uncle Owen about the condensers on the south ridge. If I don't get them repaired by mid-day there will be hell to pay. Life is hard on a moisture farm.

  2. Dune! by neiras · · Score: 3, Funny

    Okay, so windtraps exist. Now to genetically-engineer me a giant worm.

  3. New problems by glittermage · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now the birds will get dry eyes.

    1. Re:New problems by Xphile101361 · · Score: 4, Funny

      So they'll have red eye flights?

    2. Re:New problems by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 3, Funny

      Now the birds will get dry eyes.

      We will need to squeegee them off the turbine blades in order to confirm the eyes were dry before impact...

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  4. Yes, but ... by philarete · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will you need a droid that understands the binary language of moisture vaporators?

  5. Common Uncle Owen!! by Gotung · · Score: 4, Funny

    But I was going down to the Toshi stations to pick up some power converters!!!

  6. So now what we really need... by nam37 · · Score: 2, Funny

    So now what we really need is a droid who understands the binary language of moisture vaporators.

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  7. Not really purified . . . by Mitchell314 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Water from the air can still be contaminated with dihydrogen monoxide, a byproduct of combustion, which a lot of factories and power plants give off.

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  8. Moisture Vaporators! by euxneks · · Score: 1, Funny

    Uncle Owen: "What I really need is a droid who understands the binary language of moisture vaporators." C-3PO: "Vaporators? Sir, my first job was programming binary load lifters very similar to your vaporators in most respects."

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    1. Re:Moisture Vaporators! by NonUniqueNickname · · Score: 5, Funny

      As far C-3PO knows, the binary load lifters story is true. Shortly after the conclusion of Episode III, C-3PO contracted the Tyrell Corporation to wipe its memory banks and implant the memories of another robot. C-3PO effectively has no recollection of Episodes I, II, or III. Lucky bastard.

  9. Re:Weather implications? by Tarlus · · Score: 4, Funny

    But what about the 2? Is there enough 2 in the Martian atmosphere??

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  10. Re:oh cool! by Moryath · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, they've invented vaporators.

    The problem will be finding translator droids who speak Bocce.

  11. Top Secret! by Dave+Emami · · Score: 4, Funny

    The issue with many desalination plants is not the disposal of salts/minerals but keeping the system clean from all those salts/minerals. The issue being that salts/minerals have a tenancy to build up inside the pipes causing the system to need lots of maintenance.

    Doctor Flamond: You see, a year ago, I was close to perfecting the first magnetic desalinization process so revolutionary, it was capable of removing the salt from over 500 million gallons of seawater a day. Do you realize what that could mean to the starving nations of the earth?
    Nick Rivers: Wow! They'd have enough salt to last forever!

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  12. Re:oh cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    You shoot small animals for fun? That's the first indicator of a serial killer, you freak!