Super Plastic Both Attracts and Repels Water

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• 	Request for sample for testing for ... Guest (Ronald H Levine) on 05/30/2006 at 12:00 AM
  Posts: 1	equest for sample for testing for preparedness use for water collection in dessert environments with foggy nights to determine the quantity needed and if it can be made to be folded up lightweight and compact and marketed for this purpose.   RonaldHLevine@aideq.com Rate this comment: (Reply)

  • 	[no subject] Guest (andrea raise) on 06/21/2006 at 12:00 AM
    Posts: 1	equest for sample for testing for preparedness use for water collection in dessert environments with foggy nights to determine the quantity needed and if it can be made to be folded up lightweight and compact and marketed for this purpose.   RonaldHLevine@aideq.comReply Rate this comment: (Reply)

• Hybridize the technology Guest (Chuck the Lucky) on 06/01/2006 at 12:00 AM

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  I have been hearing about companies that are making low cost (potentially solar powered) devices that use the basic principle of a dehumidifier to make water (which is then filtered) from the air by cooling it. It sounds that combining these two techniques could be added for extra efficiency. I remember one of these companies saying that the technology is feasible in all but the absolutely driest climates and that most of the world's people, even the poorest, live in areas where it is may be hot and have little precipitation but the air is not completely dessicated. Many are selling solar panels and provide units in a range of sizes from personal/family to small village size. If this new strategy can be added on to this new but existing industry of atmospheric water generators it could be a really interesting development. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_Air_Extraction_Devices Rate this comment: (Reply)

• 	apply to diapers Guest (bogo) on 06/02/2006 at 12:00 AM
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• 	Mining water from ambient Air. Guest (Austin B. Carter, Jr) on 06/04/2006 at 12:00 AM
  Posts: 1	DMSE plastic in article could be coated on opposite face with an electrical conductor that would then allow electrostatic cooling to depress the samples temperature to the ambient DEW point resulting in the nucleation, condensation and harvesting of water from air. Note that electrostatic cooling can be powered by a solar panel. Rate this comment: (Reply)

  • Re: Mining water from ambient Air. pablo8 on 08/21/2006 at 1:11 PM

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    My name is pablo and I am starting a large public organic garden, in mexico, in the state of oaxaca, on the pacific coast.. The climate there is perfect, for collecting ambient moisture in the air, for half of the year the humdidity is at 90 percent or more...There is a huge lack of water in this region of mexico, which only enables people to gro food a few months of the year.. if we could some how creat a collection machine that could, that was not to expensive to run and create.. I think it could be a great use to people down there..I have dedicated the next couple of months while i am in the states to make this machine...Unfortunately I am starting from ground zero, I am a mason and a carpenter, but lack much knowledge or electricity, chemistry, and engineering...If htere is anybody out there who would like to lend me a hand, or some advice, or just wants to talk about ...please pablo Rate this comment: (Reply)

    • 	i need assistance awetila on 09/15/2006 at 4:56 PM
      Posts: 1	hello, currently am a student of mechanical engineering in my school. I am working on a particular topic, please i need your assistance in helping me to write this.it is a competition i am putting in for.Thanks as i wait for your reply. Rate this comment: (Reply)

    • Re: Mining water from ambient Air. joeatxdobs on 09/26/2006 at 12:43 PM

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      We are building a night radiant condenser system that would be ideal for use in large parts of Mexico.   As it turns out providing the proper hydrophilic conditions are only part of the atmospheric water harvest battle, you also need to provide favorable wind conditions and favorable temperatures which we optimize with our Night radiant condensation system.      We would be interested in enhancing this unit for use with the super plastic which should increase its yield per square foot.     Our system works today and can be delivered in volumes from 100 square foot at 3.5 gallons per night up to millions of square foot.  We target areas with daytime high RH over 73%.   We expect a super plastic like material to double or triple our production especially in otherwise marginal conditions.  It could allow us to deliver water in areas with lower humidity which would make the technology useful to those areas which need it the most.  Reply to joe@a2wh.com Rate this comment: (Reply)

• 	Harvesting Water from Fog Guest (Austin B. Carter,Jr.) on 07/03/2006 at 12:00 AM
  Posts: 1	An open foam sponge made from DMSE Nano super plastic would allow water collection from fog and be a small, mobile, squeezable supply of water for mariners adrift on a life raft in a fog bank.   Rate this comment: (Reply)

• 	request rawson on 11/07/2006 at 9:49 AM
  Posts: 1	dear sir, I represent a group of large off shore investors. I would like to request a sample,to check usage,capacity etc.If you have any research that is available that would be great also. please send reply to rawson_watson@hotmail.com address Mr R.Watson         237 marlborough road         Gillingham         Kent ME7 5HS         England Rate this comment: (Reply)

  • 	THE FAMOUS RAWSON WATSON! klm220 on 05/21/2007 at 5:45 PM
    Posts: 1	Not the same Rawson Watson who tried to steal £1.5 million from a plane? Gillingham. Kent. It must be! Congratulations on your "memorable crime"! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/2976574.stm Rate this comment: (Reply)

    • Re: THE FAMOUS RAWSON WATSON! briesmith on 05/22/2007 at 7:00 AM

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      "Watson got away from the airport but he was arrested for drink-driving in October 2002 and his DNA was matched to a blood sample recovered from the aircraft's hold. When his case reached the Old Bailey in June 2003, Watson denied the robbery attempt and assured the jury that he was back-packing in West Africa at the time. Unfortunately for him, the stamps for Togo in his passport turned out to be forgeries. So a month later, he was sent down for 3 years." This man is obviously stupid beyond belief. It would be interesting to find out what, if anything, he could make of this new material. Failing any way forward with technology can I suggest a name change? Rate this comment: (Reply)

• 	Where can I get some? Michaelangelica on 01/08/2007 at 2:39 PM
  Posts: 2	Where can I buy a sample of this material for testing please? Rate this comment: (Reply)

• Fog Reduction semichnich on 11/03/2007 at 10:39 PM

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  I've read many articles over the past few years about super chain reaction accidents caused by dense fog. There seems to be certain areas that are habitually prone to these fogs. I had often wondered if there was a material that could be placed along these road stretches to reduce the totally blinding conditions encountered. Granted this would require a literal forest of frames to support strips or grids of this super plastic and a culvert system to draw off the water, and assuming the water could drain down the strips or grid by gravity alone. This is no small task,,, but is it possible ? Rate this comment: (Reply)