https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/28/bill-gates-and-blackrock-backing-source-global-maker-of-hydropanels.html
This looks like REALLY big stuff! Couldn't find out exactly how much water one of these $2,000 panels produces in a day /week etc. But 40 panels ($80,000) provides water for their first installation client - the Samburu Girls' Foundation. I'm guessing that might, counting the girls (and their family members who also use the water?), be serving a population of a few hundred. So, looks like pretty fair cost/efficiency, especially for a completely new technology. . Excellent choice for first installation. They do good work. Here's their site: https://samburugirls.foundation/
Fascinating! I am just now exploring options to install a Solar stay in my back yard. I love the idea of Dominion Energy, with its two Nuclear power plants, buying electricity from me. The Magic water production system is brilliant,! I'll begin researching options today. Dr. Gretta Thunberg will be
I read the following on line " Developed by material scientist Cody Friesen, the hydropanel is designed to produce four to 10 liters of drinking water every day depending on weather conditions and humidity levels.Jan 16, 2020" Can serve for suplementation or more. Water source needs to be maintained to prevent bacteria and I assume added filtering?
Thanks, Lerner. Looks like I overestimated the output. I read that average fluid intake need for men is 3.7 litres daily, for women, 2.7. So, one panel per 1-3 people. 80 panels for somewhere between 80-200 people. Still pretty good. This is new. Likely price will go down and efficiency up. I think this is here to stay. Good news, at a time that doesn't have much of that. Good to read.
Contradiction (?) : “a single hydro panel used by Source can replace 54,000 single-use plastic bottles during its 15-year lifespan……. Source has already installed its panels at 450 project sites spread over 52 countries, and last year launched its own bottled water brand in Queensland, Australia.” replace plastic bottles and …..a bottled water brand will be launched…… ??? This what I saw on PBS NOVA to reduce CO and CO2 from the atmosphere.
Yeah - BIG contradiction. Looked all over their bottled-water site, FAQS etc. Nothing there about this particular oddity.. https://www.source.co/bottled-source/
I wonder what the environmental impact would be of taking all that moisture out of the air, if done on a wide scale. If it has a negligible effect, then I think we have a huge technological winner that could absolutely change the world and the course of history. However, what happens when hundreds of thousands of hydropanels are installed worldwide? Or thousands in one concentrated area? Does it affect humidity levels enough to have an impact on wildlife and/or weather patterns? The article doesn't even mention it.
I think moisture is in the air for a reason. We already take it out of air by using AC. Maybe it has effect? A study needed. I think it is a great step forward. I would also see them use ozone and where it is needed should be putting more water into the air to increase rain fall?
Doesn't seem logical. More efficient to deliver water where it's needed on the ground - pipes. irrigation or (sigh) trucks, etc. What people did 60-70 years ago (don't know if they still do) was fire up a plane and lace clouds with silver iodide to make rain happen. Here's recent news from Israel on that. How about that! ME, quoting Israeli news to LERNER! "Israel has been enhancing rain in convective clouds since the 1950s. The practice involves emitting silver iodide from airplanes and ground stations. The seeding takes place only in the northern parts of Israel. Since 2021, Israel stopped the rain enhancement project."
Here's an article on US cloud-seeding with silver iodide: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/mar/23/us-stated-cloud-seeding-weather-modification
