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AirDrop
"The cost to Australia from climate change is going to be greater than for any developed country, We are
already starting to see it. It's tearing apart the life-support system that gives us this world." (Cart, 2009)
The effects of climate change on Australia are accelerating at an alarming rate. Only last year regions like
the Murray Darling were experiencing the worst drought in a century, which lasted for 12 years and
resulted in irreversible damage to ecosystems, widespread wildlife decline and catastrophic bushre
conditions. Agriculture in the region suffered record losses. An alarming gure of one rancher or farmer a
week were taking their own life, as years of drought resulted in failed crops, mounting debt and slowly
decaying towns. Although 2010 has brought much needed rainfall to the area, other parts of Australia are
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continuing to suffer drought. The southwest corner of the country has experienced its driest year to date.
Scientic projections indicate as temperatures continue to increase so to will the severity, frequency and
duration of droughts worldwide.
Extensive research into droughts revealed an increase in soil evaporation and trans-evaporation (plant and
soil) due to the increasing temperatures. Airdrop irrigation returns moisture to the soil by literally feeding
the humid air from the atmosphere back under the ground.
There are various atmospheric water harvesting technologies that exist today, but most are high-tech and
expensive: not ideal for the rural farmer market. The Airdrop irrigation system is a low-tech, self sufcient
solar powered solution: an innovation bread of comprehensive investigations into rural agricultural
environments, developed through working with irrigation manufacturers and local farmers, and rened by
extensive prototyping with successful results. The nal prototype of a scaled down unit produced close to
a liter of water out of the air in a day. Further testing in a variety of conditions is necessary to conrm the
results.
The Airdrop Irrigation project won the 2011 Global James Dyson Award, received an Honourable Mention
in the 2011 Australian Design Awards - James Dyson Award, and received 3rd prize in the Cumulus
Association 20th Anniversary International Student Competition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXe-4XE2QVI
Dyson Awards: Edward Linnacre's AirDrop Irrigation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtGHeket8zs
Interview with 2011 Dyson Award Winner Edward Linacre
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-11/airdrop-irrigation-system-pulls-moisture-dry-desert-
air-wins-dyson-award
11.08.2011
Airdrop, Which Harvests Moisture Directly From Desert Air,
Wins James Dyson Award
by
Clay Dillow
The James Dyson Award winners for 2011 have been announced, and the grand prize winner is a piece of
clever biomimicry that sits so perfectly in our wheelhouse that we couldn't resist the urge to write about it.
Edward Linacre of Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne has tapped the Namib beetle--a
desert dwelling species that survives in the most arid conditions on Earth--to create an irrigation system
that can pull liquid moisture straight out of dry desert air.
Airdrop, as the system is known, borrows a trick from the Namib beetle, which can live in areas that
receive just half an inch of rain per year by harvesting the moisture from the air that condenses on its back
during the early morning hours. A hydrophilic skin helps to snare water molecules passing on the breeze,
which then accumulate into droplets of consumable liquid water.
Airdrop mimics this idea, though on a larger scale. The self-powering device pumps water into a network
of underground pipes, where it cools enough for water to condensate. From there the moisture is delivered
to the roots of nearby plants. Linacre's math shows that about 11.5 milliliters can be harvested from every
cubic meter of air, and further development could raise that number even higher.
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Such a system could provide regular moisture to plants being grown in the world's driest regions. And
because it is low cost and self-powered, there's not a lot of investment or maintenance involved in
deploying Airdrop. The $14,000 award from Dyson (Linacre's university also gets an additional $14,000)
should help speed that along.
This year's runners up included a quickly deployable divider for medical settings that lets healthcare
professionals make the most of available space and an aide for the blind that uses a special cane and
location-based social networking apps to help the visually impaired locate their friends. All of this year's
entries can be seen here : http://www.jamesdysonaward.org
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