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Warpy

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5. People in Cjile have been using polypropylene netting to trap water
Sat Aug 26, 2023, 04:29 PM
Aug 2023

for their gardens for a long time. Water condenses on the netting and drips into a tray at the bottom, channels taking it downhill to water staple crops.



This tech has spread to Peru's coastal regions on the edge of the Atacama, on the west coast of Africa in Morocco, and can possibly be used anywhere the air contains enough humidity, especially the west coast of the Americas. Here is the new tech:



Notice it doesn't even have to be fog, air with high relative humidity works. It might work on mountain tops here in arid NM, clouds pouring over the tops of the mountains before hitting the dry air here and evaporating. I have to wonder if plastic strands would work as well as metal wire, it would cut the cost for people who desperately need this system.

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