2012 08 09 drips pecha kucha presentation event for edf optimized
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DRIPS Project presented on June 2012 at PechaKucha EDF Sustainable Design Challenge in LondonTRANSCRIPT
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4Supported by In Association with
PechaKuchaEDF Sustainable Design Challenge
In Collaboration with
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4Kristin B. Lubenow
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PROBLEM:There are places on Earth where there’s
not enough rainfall to grow food.
Some places hardly get any water at all.
And some places alternate between bone dry and flooding.
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And in some places, the water doesn’t penetrate deep enough and evaporates before it could nourish plants.
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Two high school students from San Francisco
decided to find a solution.
Nick and Tim Werby worked with UC Berkeley School of Engineering to design a cost-effective and practical product.
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IDEA:Create a simple product that would collect atmospheric water (dew, fog, rain) and transportit below the evaporation layer in the ground.
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Solution:• Atmospheric Water Capture
• Easy Maintenance
• Easy to Understand
• Cheap
• Recyclable
• Flexible
Condensation:• Water collects on surfaces colder than the surrounding air
• In desert environment, this water evaporates before reaching plant roots
• Farmer can’t grow enough food due to lack of irrigation even in the presence of atmospheric water
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Condense atmospheric water on a surface and transport it deep enough
into the ground to keep the
moisture from evaporating
during the day.
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Easy Maintenance
No electricity;No moving parts;No supervision;Simple to make.
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Simple to Understand
Stick in the ground next to a plant.
Communicate use with a pictogram.
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Cheap & Small
There are many atmospheric
water collection solutions. We focus on the
cheap and the small. We are targeting poor
subsistence farming
populations.
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Flexibility and Customization
D.R.I.P.S. Project
Flexible & Customizable
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D.R.I.P.S. Project
Extra Food & Little Cost
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D.R.I.P.S. Project
Extra Food & Little Cost
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D.R.I.P.S. Project
2011 EDF Sustainable Design Challenge Winner
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D.R.I.P.S. Project
2012 Challenge: Develop a Working Prototype
Moving from concept to a fully-realized product is
very hard.
Tim and Nick decided to develop an inspirational
prototype.
Using the grant from EDF, the boys worked with artists to develop a DRIPS prototype...
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There are MANY different solutions to atmospheric water collection problem.
DRIPSproject.com is a large library of solutions with links to companies that
make various atmospheric water collection systems and to research on how atmospheric water can be used
in agriculture.
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4Supported by In Association with
PechaKuchaEDF Sustainable Design Challenge
In Collaboration with