"Man invents windmills that turn air into clean water"

[MamaBear]

http://gmy.news.yahoo.com/vid/14935095

Brilliant! (But pricey for home use)

[wander]

That's just condensation right? Seems easy enough to do, you don't need a big wind turbine, just something that generates enough electricity to power a small ac unit right?

[opsec]

I don't know if it's that simple Wander. It if was, then they wouldn't have added the expense of a wind turbine.

[offdalip]

windmill not necessary at all.

horribly inefficient.

and ironically that won't work in the dessert ( where you need it )

but it will work great in a place with 98% humidity like FL where there is easy water elsewhere

[The Future]

seems like a renewable electricity supply connected to a dehumidifier with a filter and ideally UV light setup.  Nothing new.

[wander]

It just seems like a simple verson of ecoloblu with a windmill attached to it for power. Basically an AC unit to condense and collect the water.

It would work in the desert, but would generate far less water than in florida... if humidity is .01%, you'll get maybe 1 ounce per hour verse 2 gallons per hour in florida. Certainly not worth the effort.

[offdalip]

verse 2 gallons per hour in florida. Certainly not worth the effort.

actually my dehumidifier makes about 2 gallons per 24 hours here in FL so you may want to reduce your desert calculations (but I think the humidity there is closer to 10% IIRC from when I lived in Tucson)

[Wellspring]

I an now a sales rep for Ecoloblue's Atmospheric Water Generator (AWG).  Founder is client & friend of mine. 
 
These units are selling well even in this economy. My main market right now is office bldgs replacing the water delivery service which has a big carbon footprint, isn't the purist water & is more expensive than a AWG. 

The EcoloBlue 28 AWG is a Hybrid Water Dispenser / Water Cooler. It can generate up to 7 gallons (28 liters)/day from the humidity in the Air.  Of course,  water volume production is dependent on the humidity in the air. A minimum 35% humidity is necessary to effectively produce water.  My home unit produces 
7 gallons/day with 50% humity or more.   
The machine can also be used as a Regular Reverse Osmosis Water (RO) Filtration system and can be connected to an existing water source such as your tap/city water connection or your well water connection. This backup RO filtration method allows you to filter up to 50 gallons per day.

Price is coming down in near future & I can get you a discount if you want one. 
We are working on an efficient alternative energy solution (solar/battery) to power the AWGs for folks/businesses off the grid or as back-up in case of power failure. 
As some of you already know, the battery is the weakest link.

 History

Collecting water from the air has been a practice for some 2,000 years, in the form of "Air wells" in Middle Eastern deserts, and later in Europe. Around the 1400s, we see water-collecting Dew Ponds, and later the Fog Fences, which have for hundreds of years have been used in Europe to collect clean water from the air. In the early 1970s, Melvin Littrell began producing water from the air with a system that did not need a compressor. Through this development, the creation of the first real Atmospheric Water Generator was produced. In 1990, Littrell patented the system's technology as an AWG or atmospheric water generator. 

[opsec]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_well_(condenser)

This technology might be worth pursuing.

[Wellspring]

that link isn't working; parenthesis is missing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_well_(condenser)