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I think the main reason is because it's just two industrial designers with no connections to any of the NGOs necessary to get the $500k worth of build-money and
by msandford 13y ago
I think the main reason is because it's just two industrial designers with no connections to any of the NGOs necessary to get the $500k worth of build-money and probably another $500k to $1.5mm worth of "let's make this happen" money.
Look at the front page of the website it's posted on: http://www.architectureandvision.com/ http://www.architectureandvision.com/ Half of the stuff there is made-up concepts, not real actual things.
If we were seeing this on the water.org website then yes I would absolutely agree with you that the two units as a "goal" is ridiculous. But since it seems like they have no serious funding yet and plane tickets to Africa aren't exactly cheap I think two units is reasonable.
- danmaz74 13y agoThis looks like a perfect idea for a kickstarter campaign, though...
- jonhohle 13y agoFrom https://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/kickstarter%20basics https://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/kickstarter%20basics: > Kickstarter does not allow charity, cause, > or "fund my life" projects. Check out our > project guidelines for details.
- philtar 13y ago"Hi. We're warka tower. Pay $1000 and we'll make two warka towers, one for you and one for africa. You must pick up yours* *If you fail to pick it up in X days we'll take it to Africa"
- briantakita 13y agoThis would be a great Burning Man exhibit.
- samstave 13y agoTotally -- burning man would make a great test environment. Put up 10 of these as showers...
- ghshephard 13y agoPart of the playa environment would work in their favor (Cold at night, Warm in the day) - but there are two elements in the playa that would likely make these ineffective. 1. Playa Dust - that stuff gets in everything - and this water tower would be choked with the stuff almost immediately. Cleaning it would be challenge (to put it lightly 2. More problematically, the condensation tower/Air well works on the principle of collecting dew that forms on a low temperature substrate. The humidity near gerlach is close to 38 percent, and I don't recall ever seeing much in the way of condensation ever....
- jmharvey 13y agoI wonder how many problems like his would also exist in a deployment in Ethiopia. Many problems seem much more complicated when you've encountered them firsthand.
- chinpokomon 13y agoPerhaps, but I predict limited success. The article talks about being able to install these towers in a dessert and specifically talks about temperature variance, but low humidity environments would still have more lower yield. You can't make something just out of nothing. It also seems like the fine Playa dust would be another negative. As any Burner will tell you, Playa gets into everything. I don't see any way to avoid getting Playa into the inner chamber which then would require further filtering and refinement to separate from the water. The best use of this technology would be an environment where ground water isn't safe, but that has a high enough humidity to be able to yield a sufficient supply. That being said, Burning Man would provide a suitable environment to push this to the extremes and see what it might be capable of. It would certainly help discover how it will break down.
- DennisP 13y agoBut it'd be fine on Indiegogo.
- rch 13y agoIf they work, I would buy one of these things for my place in Colorado. Maybe there would be enough interest to get it going as a business.