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Wind Turbine Extracts Water From Air
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."
Finally, we've developed the technology to colonize Arrakis!
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
Okay, so windtraps exist. Now to genetically-engineer me a giant worm.
Now the birds will get dry eyes.
Will you need a droid that understands the binary language of moisture vaporators?
But I was going down to the Toshi stations to pick up some power converters!!!
So now what we really need is a droid who understands the binary language of moisture vaporators.
The two rules for success are:
1) Never tell them everything you know.
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.
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
But what about the 2? Is there enough 2 in the Martian atmosphere??
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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.
No, they've invented vaporators.
The problem will be finding translator droids who speak Bocce.
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!
"The Greens lynched a hacker in Chicago. Last month, but I think the body's still hanging from the old Water Tower."
You shoot small animals for fun? That's the first indicator of a serial killer, you freak!