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Just minutes ago I got home from a camping trip up in Sonoma County near Occidental. We camped under a small grove of redwood trees. The first night the fog rol
by malyk 8y ago
Just minutes ago I got home from a camping trip up in Sonoma County near Occidental. We camped under a small grove of redwood trees. The first night the fog rolled in around 3am or so and we woke up to “rain” hitting our tent a few hours later. The second night the fog rolled in around 8pm and it was “raining” all night while we cooked dinner and then, all night long as we slept, it sounded like a light drizzle outside.
My point being, if you can build tree/like structures, use nets, etc you can capture a significant amount of water. Coast Redwoods are adapted to it, but it was pretty awesome seeing their water gathering in practice and how effective it was. Our stuff is soaked!
- jsilence 8y agoI was thinking the same. On Gomera the "fog forest" is providing a major part of water for the island. Planting trees is probably much cheaper than setting up the nets.
- icebraining 8y agoIf you siphon off the water captured by trees, won't you risk killing them?
- malyk 8y agoI’m certainly not a specialist here, but I think it depends on the tree. The Redwoods didn’t generate enough ground water to saturate more than a quarter inch of soil, so I think they must be able to use the water more directly in their leaves and branches. So it might not be that you can just plant a bunch of trees that aren’t adapted to getting their water from fog, but it might be possible to build “tree like” fog water capture systems instead of fine mesh nets. Then again, maybe not. I was mostly surprised by seeing the fog capture up close and how efficient it was.
- leolyons 8y agoON Gomera they also have experimental mist nests which aim to emulate the trees by causing moisture in the air to condensate which is then collected into gutter at the base of the nets.