{"id":7155,"date":"2012-09-18T11:07:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T15:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=7155"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:44:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:44:09","slug":"headache-free-device-makes-fresh-water-with-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/headache-free-device-makes-fresh-water-with-solar-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Headache-Free Device Makes Fresh Water with Solar Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_7156\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7156\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/7_gabriele-diamantieliodomesticoprix-hemile-hermes-2011assembling-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/7_gabriele-diamantieliodomesticoprix-hemile-hermes-2011assembling-7-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"7_gabriele-diamantieliodomesticoprix-hemile-hermes-2011assembling-7\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/7_gabriele-diamantieliodomesticoprix-hemile-hermes-2011assembling-7-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/7_gabriele-diamantieliodomesticoprix-hemile-hermes-2011assembling-7.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Gabriele Diamantieli<\/figcaption><\/figure>An Italian designer has created an ingenious solution to the fresh water problem that many people in the developing world face. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called Eliodomestico, a ceramic solar still designed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gabrielediamanti.com\/projects\/eliodomestico \" target=\"_blank\">Gabriele Diamanti<\/a> as a way to produce fresh water with a product that could be made locally. For his ingenious, open-source design, Gabriele received a special mention at the Well-Tech Award 2012 and won the Core77 Design Awards 2012 in the social impact category.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The simple design is the true winner here. It consists of two ceramic parts stacked together. Inside the top piece is a black container where the salt water goes. The sun heats the container and turns the water to steam. Pressure starts to build and the steam is forced down a tube into a container in the other, lower part. Therein the steam will condense against the lid and the basin of the container will collect it.<\/p>\n<p>The system can collect just over a gallon of fresh water per day and it costs US$50 to manufacture. Since it requires no electricity \u00e2\u20ac\u201c only free, clean <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/archives\/solar_power_energy.htm\" target=\"_blank\">solar power<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it is free to run. As many people in the developing world tend to carry water containers in their head, the bottom basin was designed to fit around a person\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head comfortably.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\" target=\"_blank\">Gizmag<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Italian designer has created an ingenious solution to the fresh water problem that many people in the developing world face. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called Eliodomestico, a ceramic solar still designed by Gabriele Diamanti as a way to produce fresh water with a product that could be made locally. For his ingenious, open-source design, Gabriele received a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1588,232,1706],"class_list":["post-7155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","tag-salty-water","tag-solar","tag-solar-power"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8978,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7155\/revisions\/8978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}