It's Elemental, My Dear

We know now that we can live longer if we have clean air to breathe (see today's article: "Breathe Better, Live Longer"). I should hope that we also know that we need clean water to drink. Looking at this planet from space, you'd think that sufficient water would never be an issue on planet Earth. Yet even though most of the surface of this planet consists of water, only about 3% of it is drinkable. That puts an entirely different perspective on this precious elemental part of survival.



With all this cleaner air we're breathing now, why don't we use some of it to produce clean water? Anyone who has studied survival methods can tell you how to make your own water from air through the process of collecting condensation from a homemade water still. If you don't know how to do this, I recommend that you take a look at any survival skills reference manual or do a search online. A quick search yielded several informative articles. Here's just one of them for further research, if you're interested.



http://www.survivaltopics.com/survival/how-to-make-a-solar-water-survival-still/



Once you understand this basic principle, you'll see why it might be nice if we don't wait until we're desperate for water to start producing it from air. It's a bit of a job that requires some time and effort. Way more effort than walking over to the faucet and turning it on. But in areas where water shortages are a regular occurrence, we could apply some of this nifty science to create supplies of drinkable water from the air before it is needed.



From emagazine.com, I learned about a company that is working on a solution to the shortage of potable water. It is called Element Four. The product they've developed is called the Watermill, which applies these basic scientific principles not only to produce water from air, but also to purify the water after it is generated.



To learn more about this company, I link you to the original emagazine.com article I read.





http://www.emagazine.com/view/?4493



I did a Google search and learned about some other companies that are using innovative ideas to do similar elemental things, including providing water for the troops who are still hanging out in the Iraqi desert, waiting for democracy to take hold and working their tails off trying to rebuild a nation damaged by the "war on terror." It's okay if you don't want to read all these nerdy, scientific articles, but they're there if you're interested. If you want to read even more, I suggest you Google the words: "make water from air" and then stand back and be amazed at how much information is at your fingertips as a result of a few keystrokes.



http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/10/71898



http://www.alternate-energy-sources.com/water-from-air.html







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