I'm spinning up a lab in Santa Cruz to research the local tick population. We could use extra skilled hands to help obtain the distribution of pathogens, and in developing treatment protocols. Plus, who doesn't enjoy a good tick hunt?
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Definitely not novel at this stage, but once we modify the AWG to achieve water reclamation from urine, would that be considered novel?
The next milestone is to create open source designs for larger-scale, commercially available machines that are prohibitively expensive, and improve upon them. The machines exist and there is a market for them. Is it not worth the time and effort to increase access to technologies like this?
Not just knowledge of chemistry, but actively developing eyedrops to cure cataracts :)
Our current approach is to get the AWG module working, then add a module which boils urine and feeds the vapor into the AWG module for distillation and filtration.
Ideally, we'd like to use a gasifier for carbon negative power generation, as local biomass can be utilized.
Does this make sense, or do you have a more effective approach?
There is always more to read up on and calculate :)
EDIT: The current dehumidifier does accumulate ice on the evaporator coils, depending on the ambient conditions. Once enough ice has accumulated, the compressor turns off and the ice melts into the collection tray. I'm assuming we have to depose the ice out of the dry atmosphere at BRC, since the dew point is below the freezing point of water. Is this not the case?
That is awesome! We'd love to have a chat with you to better understand your thinking process, perspective, and sources.
The pump were using right now consumes 104 W intermittently. For our next prototype, we're going to use a condenser unit from a walk-in freezer (1168W), a split A/C unit to pretreat the air (560W) MinnowBoardMax (15W), duct fan (208W), etc.
It would, but it would most likely be less efficient than filtering the water you're floating in :)
A good way to increase the efficiency of this machine would be to increase the relative humidity by adding moisture. This is the reasoning behind our next planned experiments of reclaiming water from urine!
You might be able to get away with using the reverse osmosis system we have, [0] but send the water to a lab to test influent (intake) and effluent (output) before consuming :D
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