Kevin, AWG is emerging ...
Published by Ushi Khanna
Kevin, AWG is emerging technology but I doubt it on practical basis.At the same hand this solid rain, sound interesting but will it lead to water clogging? thank you for sharing this information.
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Hello Ushi, I think you might be referring to waterlogging?, which is the saturation of soil with water. I don't think we can talk about saturation of water since its not really true liquid water that we are dealing with, it is water trapped as a solid phase. The fact that it is trapped as little cubes that are physically separated from one another (this comes from the water absorption capacity of each grain of salt that separates them as they saturate with water) provides space between them where I assume air could pass freely. In this sense it might provide even more room for the plant to breathe. It is a good question, and I don't think this phenomenon of waterlogging has been studied to the extent it should, however I do know the technology is having a large impact in water deficient agricultural communities. You might be right in terms of AWGs not being practical, however I do believe there is large latent potential behind the concept of harvesting water from atmospheric humidity. Just thinking about all the water that evaporates from the oceans into the atmosphere and that we could grant it available without thinking about desalination sounds pretty nifty to me. After all, our planet constantly purifies sea water and in large quantities through evaporation as part of its own natural cycles.
Published by Kevin Kelly, Kurimexicana - Head of Research and Development