Comments for Wind Turbine Produces Both Electricity and Water at http://www.ecogeek.org , comment 1 to 7 out of 7 comments http://www.ecogeek.org Thu, 23 May 2013 21:50:30 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.ecogeek.org/wind-power/3802-wind-turbine-produces-both-electricity-and-water#comment-47394 Thank you greatly for the article. I suppose that for a US-East-Coast boy like me, it's hard to imagine any place that dry having real water in the air. - David Hurt Sun, 07 Oct 2012 12:24:37 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/wind-power/3802-wind-turbine-produces-both-electricity-and-water#comment-47300 Good article and a very good and appropriate development that further increases the value of wind energy installations by also producing fresh drinkable water as well as non-polluting renewable energy. However, every manufacturer of wind turbines should definitely be incorporating the recently developed 'wind lens' design that doubles or triples the power output of wind turbines. See: http://www.triplepundit.com/2011/09/wind-lens/ Any turbine design that ignores this development is just plain stupid. - ghonadz Sun, 23 Sep 2012 16:53:37 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/wind-power/3802-wind-turbine-produces-both-electricity-and-water#comment-47283 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090605091856.htm - Matt Wed, 19 Sep 2012 04:53:20 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/wind-power/3802-wind-turbine-produces-both-electricity-and-water#comment-47282 Does this make sense (and dollars)? At max production, assuming about $0.25/gal of water (worth it for clean distilled water?, the cost of power is under $0.50/kw.hr. Not bad.. If we made some wild assumptions and de-rate output to 50 gal/day and 30kw average and hold the value of water constant at $1/4gal, the cost of power skyrockets to nearly $7/kw.hr. This is more than a solar PV installation, but far less that batteries, so might be OK. I'd say that this is interesting and creative and might be a very worthwhile installation in the right places, but the numbers matter and will vary. - Hydrophilia Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:20:58 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/wind-power/3802-wind-turbine-produces-both-electricity-and-water#comment-47251 Expensive but maybe not if it is teamed up with the grains of rice freerice.com, mywaterbottle project charity water, care2 butterfly rewards and a all the other clean water projects. - Carrie Mon, 17 Sep 2012 01:37:38 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/wind-power/3802-wind-turbine-produces-both-electricity-and-water#comment-47209 $600,000 does seem a bit prohibitively expensive, doesn't it? What community with "moderate electricity needs" can well afford that? Is this really a normal cost for a developing community's energy needs? - Rw.Flynn Sun, 09 Sep 2012 01:54:02 +0100 http://www.ecogeek.org/wind-power/3802-wind-turbine-produces-both-electricity-and-water#comment-47205 Someone will say it eventually- By definition, places with great need for water supply tend not to have much water in the air, either. Low humidity could/will seriously hinder the efficiency of such a turbine. It is certainly possible that this has already been accounted for in the numbers that Eole has published, but I don't see any indication of that at this point. Hope to see later. - Fencerdave Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:20:35 +0100