Australian designer Edward Linacre turning air into water

[MrAmsterdam]

Australian designer Edward Linacre wins James Dyson Award for turning air into water

http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-t ... 6190299339

AN Australian designer has won this year's James Dyson Award with an invention that sounds more like magic than science and the inventor owes his success to an unassuming beetle.
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Airdrop is a low-cost, self-powered solution to growing crops in arid regions.
After the country's worst drought in a century, Linacre, a former student at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, turned to nature to find ways of capturing moisture from air.

He studied the Namib beetle, an ingenious species that lives in one of the driest places on earth.

With 1.3cm of rain a year, the beetle can only survive by consuming the dew it collects on the hydrophilic skin of its back in the early mornings.

Airdrop uses the same concept, working on the principle that even the driest air contains water molecules that can be extracted by lowering the air's temperature to the point of condensation.

It pumps air through a network of underground pipes to cool it to the point at which the water condenses, delivering water directly to the roots of plants.

Applying bio mimicry and empiricism will bring you a solution...?

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A backward swamp cooler!