Jul 20 2008
The Global Safe Drinking Water Crisis
Simple facts that speak volumes:
Access to safe drinking water is the first step out of poverty. In many parts of the world, the simple gathering of water for daily life consumes a significant amount of the day for women and children. The task of gathering water precludes other activities, including education, or other economic activities. Without access to adequate, safe water, millions of the worlds poorest will remain trapped in poverty.
The people at the Blue Planet Run Foundation are doing something about the global water crisis.
And now, Blue Planet Run has published an extraordinary book.
Blue Planet Run provides readers with an extraordinary look at the water problems facing humanity and some of the hopeful solutions being pursued by large and small companies, by entrepreneurs and activists, and by nongovernmental organizations and foundations. By the end of the book, readers are left to form their own conclusions as to whether the human race is capable of taking the steps necessary to solve this global crisis before it’s too late.
Blue Planet Run is actually two books in one: the first is about an inspiring 15,000-mile relay race— the longest relay race in human history—in which 20 athletes spent 95 days running around the globe to spread awareness of the global water crisis.
The second is a showcase of powerful, inspiring, disturbing and hopeful images captured by leading photojournalists around the world who documented the human face of the crisis and its possible solutions. The result of these two parallel projects is this new book.
In addition to the world class photographs, this book includes insightful essays from a passionate group of writers, environmentalists, inventors and journalists including Robert Redford, Diane Ackerman, Fred Pearce, Bill McKibben, Jeffrey Rothfeder, Michael Specter, Dean Kamen, Michael Malone, Paul Hawken,
and Mike Cerre.
The coffee table edition $45.00 and well worth it. This is a stunning book. 100% of royaltees goes to solving the water crisis. If you want to see more before buying, the PDF is available for free download. here.
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Gerhard Laschober
Austria, Europe
e-mail: gml@aon.at
Commentary on a global water crises
the innovative answer could be a production of drinking water through water condensation from the vast and inexhaustible sources of water present in the aerial humidity in surrounding air. The free cooling medium for chilling the condensation surfaces on the water cooling equipment is the free atmospheric chill originating in the cool air layers (3000-4000 meters above sea level) which, as per the invention, will be transported without using artificial energy to the water condensation equipment (on the earth’s surface).
The mechanism of the “Balloon shuttle” function
The transportation medium is the mantle of the balloon, further on balloon only, which will fill up with free hot utility waste gases produced by industrial plants for waste disposal, facilities for waste disposal, power stations, tourist facilities, agrarian farms, facilities for power consumption etc. These warm utility waste gases act in the balloon as per the buoyancy physical laws and enable a fast rise of the balloon, from the place of filling to the place of cool air offtake (3000 – 4000 meters above sea level). The balloon will remain connected to the filling and offtake places by a cable which will be kept in its variable length by a cable reel.
Fixating cables in place will prevent further rise of the balloon by opening an escape opening in the balloon to let the warm gases out. Due to now missing buoyancy power of the warm gases and countermovement of the cables being reeled in, in addition to the mass of the balloon, the warm-air balloon will now go down. During the first short phase of the process, the surrounding cold air is flowing inside to the balloon and through the balloon. In the second phase, after closing the outlet opening, the cold air continues to flow into the balloon which will, after a complete fill of air and slight inner excessive pressure in the balloon, force the cold air out once again. During the third phase, the balloon is quickly moved to a filling and emptying equipment (located on the Earth surface) where the chilled air is emptied into the condensation equipment to cool off the condensation surfaces.
Filling the balloon with warm utility waste gases, the balloon ascent, draining the waste gases out, cool atmospheric air filling, descent of the balloon down to the water production equipment and draining of the cold air from the balloon into the equipment are constant and cyclical processes.
The results of my experiments and calculations are showing that to cool of the condensation surfaces on the water condensation equipment, there will be about 24 million cubic meters of cold atmospheric air from +3ºC to 5ºC at disposal and that will fully satisfy the needs to produce a volume of several hundreds thousand liters of drinking water (always in relation to the air temperature and humidity).
Mechanism of the “Perpetuum mobile” function
The cooling medium – atmospheric coldness – is drained through textile pipes manufactured with light-weight materials. The cold air is carried from far air layers towards the water condensation equipment (located on the Earth surface).
The textile piping which is floating freely upright is held up by a giant warm-air balloon which is using warm air as a carrier medium from the continuously incoming warm air
from the water condensation equipment and is supplied by the textile piping.
The free atmospheric coldness, free aerial humidity, free incoming and outgoing transportation of the balloon as well as improving our living environment, are the key advantages of this new invention which is protected by patent rights.
There are also possibilities to obtain recycling rights and utilization rights.
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