Air 2 Water
Some news from the home/cottage gadgetry front to ask us why we bother with bottles and pipelines when we can pull mountain-pure water out of thin air? That's the promise from Air2Water.net:
The Dolphin 2 will use the Aquovate technology to convert ambient atmospheric water vapour into potable water, treated by Air2Water's advanced membrane and purification technologies. This patented technology is unique in providing water in the purest form - much like crystal dew, found only on the purest mountain tops.
[ found on Air2Water via Gizmodo ]
I don't know about you, but come July and August, I'll pull several buckets a day out of our basement de-humidifier just trying to keep the piano from melting, so for our beach summer months at least, this Dolphin thing sounds like a viable deal. No mention on price, or how much of McGinty's inflated Hydro dollars it might take to keep the kettle on, and this new version II is only promised for delivery this spring, but the published specs do include a daily flow rate of 6 litres and say both versions I and II can deliver better-than-bottled water ice-cold or steaming hot -- at long last, technology to make tea out of a tempest!
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Air 2 Water
Well let's see if it adds up. A 30 pack of half litres of bottled water is usually about $5.  That is 15 litres.   Depending on humidity a compressor on a humidifier running steady to produce 6 litres/day might need 19 kwh/day at $.11/kwh or about $2.00/day.  Bit of a trade off.
Probably cheaper to treat ditchwater with reverse osmosis and UV.Â
I see that TSC has 19 litre/min UV filters for $299 this week. Enough water for the shower and to clean your teeth as well.Â
A lot cheaper then a Sauble Hepworth pipeline and wastewater plant now officially at a $78.5 million cost. The Sun Times had the incorrect 2004 amount of $70 million in last week's article quoting CAO Carson. I wish the Town would be honest and use the official COMRIF application amount.Â
78.5 buys a lot of dehumidifiers.......
Dodge
You need to factor the full costs ...
Don't forget to add in the cost of the insecticide additives! It's hardly healthy water if'n it don't have at least a token smack of pestichlorinations, and that's expensive stuff
... which makes me wonder if maybe that's a subversive bit of municipal homeopathy in the works there ...
Water from Air II
Here's another invention inverting the direction of your well-point: Given only the roof-space above your bedroom, one of these WatAir pyramid devices could pull in 5 gallons of fresh clean water every day: