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Air Wells based on invention Apparatus for extracting waterinventor Calce G Courney Route 7 Alexandria Minn 56305 Us Patent App no 215967
Yes it is true you can get water from the Air. Simple technology that can save lives in times of drought.
Air wells have been operating since Neolithic times in one form or another.
Why would you need one of these, if you already have a good water supply.
As our normal water supplies become more polluted and more chemicals are added, we may yet get to see, many more of these devices provide families with their water needs. Already people that now buy bottled water is on the increase.
The Parts
All the pipes are of P.V.C
The device consists of a ten foot by 3 inch diameter inlet pipe buried nine feet in the ground. with one foot above it.
Both the inlet and outlet pipes should be protected from soil and bugs with screening.
The outlet pipe is buried to a depth of eleven feet and one foot above ground, with an air restrictor valve and wind turbine to pull the hot moist air through the system. The restrictor valve works in a similar way to the following experiment.
Blow air from your fully opened mouth onto you hand it will be warm.
Blow air from your mouth shaped as if you were to kiss someone it will be cool.
There are at least four heat exchange pipes and are a minimum of twenty feet long by 1.5 inch diameter . These heat exchange pipes and connection ends are slanted to allow the dew drops formed to run down into a collection tank which can be pump out by conventional means.
Method of operation
Hot moist air is drawn into the air intake pipe,, one foot above ground level seems to be the best position to capture the most moist air.
When the temperature inside the buried heat exchange pipes is below the dew point of the air flowing through them ,droplets of moisture of water will form and migrate to the collection tank. How much water is dependant on the amount of moisture in the air and the soil temperature and thermal properties. Moist soils tend to work to work the best however.
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