Airdrop: Edward Linacre and his invention (Photo: jamesdysonaward.org)
Edward Linacre, student of Swindon University of Technology in
Melbourne, has won this year's James Dyson Award. His invention,
Airdrop obtained, a simple way from the air and water to irrigate
fields. Served as inspiration for a drought, the technical model, a
Namibian desert imagine Headquartered in Schwarzkäferart.
Low-tech as a weapon against drought
Airdrop is intended as a permanent solution to the technically
unostentatious watering of plants and the potentially devastating
drought survivability. A danger that we in Australia takes very
seriously. The Murray-Darling region experienced a heat wave in twelve
years, which has not only led to record losses in agriculture, but
also to irreversible damage to the ecosystem, a dramatic decrease of
wild life and severe wildfires.
The system developed by Linacre irrigation system must be buried only.
The rest is the intelligent combination of biomimicry and solar power
alone.
Water Wind and Solar Power
Airdrop takes about an opening on the ground air is guided downwards
in a highly coiled tube. This is already underground and is cooled by
the ground. The permanent contact with its cold surface can condense
the water contained in the air.
To increase the effect of the grinding tube with copper wool is
filled. These slow the flow of air and increase the surface area with
which the air comes into contact. If not enough wind speed, then
automatically starts a small turbine that is powered by the solar
panel Airdrop of power.
The obtained wet is stored in a reservoir and low pressure with a
semi-permeable tube upward directed just below the surface, where it
is released dropwise. The pumping process is working very low energy
and can therefore be kept in motion by solar energy.
Condensation after beetle
The idea for the concept comes from the fog tube drinkers beetle, an
insect that is usually located in the Namibian desert. This supplies
over the Atlantic looming mist of liquid. He climbs to the tops of
dunes and does a back up. This is interspersed with knobs that
increase the surface and contribute to water condensation.
Grooves on the elixir of life finally runs directly into his mouth.
The insect uses the insulating function of the sand to dig into the
heat of midday and the cold of the night to survive.
$ 10,000 prize money
Linacre managed to successfully implement his idea into a prototype.
The win brings the Dyson-it now price $ 10,000 (about 7362 euros).
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