WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE,
NOR ANY DROP TO DRINK.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43997/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-text-of-1834
All in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon.
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.
FEYNMAN LECTURES ON PHYSICS -- EVAPORATION
https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu
Feynman Lecture No. 1 - Atoms in Motion
https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_01.html
Attractive intermolecular forces are categorized into the
following types:
o Hydrogen bonding
o Ion-dipole forces and ion-induced dipole forces
o Van der Waals forces - Keesom force, Debye force, and
London dispersion force
Assuming the air is not saturated, i.e. the relative humidity
is less than 100%, water molecules with higher kinetic energy
overcome the intermolecular forces and evaporate into
the atmosphere, warming the atmosphere, cooling the liquid
water, and increasing the water in earth's atmosphere. The
warmer the earth, the greater the evaporation.
REASONS FOR HARVESTING WATER FROM AIR
CONDENSATION OF ATMOSPHERIC WATER
Here are some ways that water is being harvested from the
atmosphere in reasonable quantity using only the sun, wind,
and gravity (and some engineered materials)
PASSIVE WATER HARVESTING WITH METAL-ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS
WARKA WATER TOWERS HARVEST DRINKABLE WATER FROM THE AIR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THJVuinPbc0 (2+ min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiodY5AC1xE (4 min)
CREATING WATER IN THE ATACAMA DESERT -
CREATING WATER FOUNDATION - DOCUMENTARY (9+ min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsNNp9N2v9Y
Using a HYDROPANEL, you can generate water from air! (3+ min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiX-bUr2FXo
https://source.co
https://source.co/pages/how-it-works
AN ACCIDENTALLY DISCOVERED CLASS OF NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS
CAN PASSIVELY HARVEST WATER FROM AIR
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-accidentally-class-nanostructured-materials-passively.html
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu8349
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