> ...vapor collection could be made much more efficient by first zapping the tiny droplets of water with a beam of electrically charged particles, or ions, to give each droplet a slight electric charge. Then, the stream of droplets passes through a wire mesh, like a window screen, that has an opposite electrical charge. This causes the droplets to be strongly attracted to the mesh<p>Woah, this seems really simple and possibly applicable to other situations where you're trying to condense a vapor.
I guess at some point we're going to have to use a programming language to interface with these things.<p>Will it be something like the ones used for binary load lifters?
I wonder if this tech could be applied to evaporative cooling systems for data centers in hot regions to capture the water that is otherwise lost.<p>I know many of the big data centers use a ton of water in areas that don’t exactly have water to spare.
If you find this interesting, there are other technologies either proposed or used to collect atmospheric water.<p>Air wells: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_well_%28condenser%29" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_well_%28condenser%29</a><p>Fog collection: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_well_%28condenser%29" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_well_%28condenser%29</a>
This seems like a roundabout way to achieve a closed-loop cooling cycle. Why do this vs a water-to-air heat exchanger and never evaporate the water in the first place?
If this became widespread wouldn’t this negate some of the positive side-effects of creating more light reflection on earth? <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190220-how-artificially-brightened-clouds-could-stop-climate-change" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190220-how-artificially...</a>