Wind power to harvest energy and water from desert air

A revolutionary way to condense water from the desert air, powered by – and housed within – a wind turbine has been tested in the UAE since October of 2011, by French innovation startup Eole Water.

We’ve all seen ice cold glasses and bottles dripping with condensation after cooling water vapor in the air, and though grabbing water out of thin air is not new, it took French inventor and Eolewater founder Marc Parent’s umpteenth emptying of his air conditioner’s condensate to envision harvesting atmospheric moisture on a commercial scale using wind turbines.

After years of designs and prototypes, his proof-of-concept device, essentially a wind power refrigeration/condensation/filtration unit, was put in operation in the dry desert air of Abu Dhabi last October where it’s been reliably extracting 130-200 gal (approx. 500-800L) of clean, fresh water a day ever since.

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