Absorb water from the air the plastic can solve the water shortage crisis

May be the Gospel of cycling enthusiasts

The author is a cycling enthusiast, who used to ride for thousands of kilometers long. Who likes to ride knows that, once in the middle of nowhere finished drinking water, water is a major problem. Say is iron and rice are steel, a not eat hungry panic, in long distance riding so high levels of movement, no water to drink is deadly. Especially like the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, which hundreds of kilometers to see a person, you can experience four seasons a day route, every day can say is life on the road.

Now, from Australia Fontus a designer designed a device, is expected to solve the problem. Fontus to absorb water molecules in the air, after enrichment is stored directly as drinking water. In other words, it can automatically extract water from the air. You install a 500ml can pick up the bottle to store water.

Fontus in your bike, it can be generated by liquid water. The device is powered by two solar panels, in suitable climates, each an hour to collect 500ml about drinking water.

Want to know how it works?

Equipped with two solar make sense, Fontus condensing module is divided into two parts of the heating system and a cooling system, when solar panels started when power supply and heating system on the front-end is responsible for heating, and at the bottom the cooling system for cooling, heating and cooling parts separated without disturbing. So that when the air when poured into the device, the first to be heated to a higher temperature in the bottom cooled and condensed back into water droplets, being collected are stored in containers. This is the principle of Fontus. Starbucks iPhone 6 Case

In addition, Fontus designed many obstacles in the air lines and burrs so that air follows the bike blows into the device at high speed, there is enough time to be heated and cooled, forming large temperature difference, improving the efficiency of liquid water condensation.

Designers introduce Retez á r, its goal was to design a small, portable devices, automatically separating the moisture in the air. After test for more than more than more than 30 products in, determine the device making materials and suitable climate conditions, the cooling system and then to design a beautiful shell. Fontus now one drop per minute can be condensed and collected an hour of water is approximately 500ml. This ride a long distance bike riders in the wild is still useful, hard to find stores no longer have the critical moment and rivers.

Commercial road is still far away

In addition to used on a bike, Fontus can also work in a static state. Relevant data show that in more than 40 countries around the world to more than 200 million people living in the area of water resource is scarce, and by 2030 the region with drinking water crisis is expected to reach 47%. Corresponding to this is, store moisture in the air around the Earth for 13000 m³. Fontus to massively commercially, Earth's water crisis is expected to be effective in relief.

However, up to now there are still many technical barriers affecting Fontus practicality. For example, the cooling module efficiency is too low, one-minute condensed water, in extreme dry conditions can achieve it? In addition, for the serious air pollution in cities, Fontus extracted water can drinking it?

Of course, we hope the product can be improved and commercially available as soon as possible.

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Fontus condensate collector

Fontus to absorb water molecules in the air, after enrichment is stored directly as drinking water. On two solar panels power it inside a cooling and a heating device, the air is heated and cooled and condensed into the bottom collection into bottles, at the appropriate environment for the next hour the water can condense to produce 500ml

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