California's latest plan to increase the state's water supply focuses on conservation, recycling wastewater, producing new water through desalination and capturing storm water.What is atmospheric water generation?And David Hertz in Malibu has figured out how to do it quite efficiently."Every tree and plant evapo-transpires, so basically is sweating moisture, so all that moisture is in the air at any given time such that there's six times more water than all the rivers.
Hertz begins by vaporizing 50 pounds of biomass from his property in a gasifier at temperatures near 1,400 degrees. The gases created as a byproduct are used to power a generator which creates electricity for use in his home and to charge batteries."Think of it as a tropical rain forest in a box," he says.
"You get the carbon out of the atmosphere, you hold it in the ground and then you get the added benefit of creating more plant life," Hertz points out.in 2019. All of the drinking water on his ranch is created through his process. And by using the shipping containers, the WeDew system can be easily transported to areas with abundant biomass but no drinking water.
May be. But pulling 2,000 liters of anything out the air may be bad for the environment?
1feralkat Not exactly 'thin' air at sea level. 🤣🤣
…until these things are messed produced on a larger scale and the very same people that wanted them will one day complain they’re removing too much water from the atmosphere. The only way to remove a drought is to remove humans and that ain’t happening anytime soon.
most people don't live on 99 acres in Malibu.
Is it an air conditioner?
Nope. Desalination would be the best alternative.
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This won’t work since we didn’t adopt the metric system.
They have had the resources to turn ocean water into fresh water but they havnt done shit
Could just pull it out of the ocean with climate change and all....
Only if it is placed offshore. If it is placed inland it will worsen drought. Also our current drought is really tiny compared to droughts of the past 1000 years. One of which lasted 200 years.
RIP Malibu guy.