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couple wins $1.5 million xprize with invention that can make water out of thin air
by：MX machinery
2019-08-29
LOS ANGELES —
It started with humility: David Hertz, who knows that you can really make your own water with thin air under the right conditions, put a small device on the roof of his office and start offering a bottle of water for free for anyone who wants it.
Soon he and his wife, Laura Doss
Hertz thinks bigger.
So much so that the couple won $1 this week.
Water richness 5 million XPrize.
They dominate the development of a system that uses containers, wood chips and other debris to produce 2,000 liters of water per day at a cost of no more than 2 cents per liter.
The XPrize competition, created by a group of philanthropist, entrepreneurs and others, has received over $0. 14 billion in bonuses over the years, known as the bold futuristic ideas designed to protect and improve the planet.
The first XPrize of $10 million is from Microsoft.
In 2004, Paul Allen, the founder of SpaceShipOne, the first privately financed manned space shuttle, and Bert Rutan, the aviation pioneer.
So a few years ago, when Hertz learned who could come up with a cheap prize, he decided that the innovative way to produce clean fresh water for a world without enough fresh water.
At that time, his little water
People who make machines take out 150 gallons a day, most of them for homeless people living in the back alley of Hertz Venice Beach environmental construction studio --
A regional company specializing in the creation of green buildings.
He and his wife, a commercial photographer, and their partner, Richard Groden, created a smaller machine that assembled the Skysource/Skywater Alliance and started working
They decided to generate the temperature and humidity needed to absorb water from the air and from the wood itself by heating the wood chips, thus creating a small rainstorm in the container.
\"The most attractive thing about containers is that they import more than they export, so there is usually a surplus,\" Hertz said . \" Containers are cheap and easy to move, he added.
If you don\'t have wood chips to heat up, coconut shells, rice, walnut shells, grass crumbs, or any other waste like that will do a great job.
\"Of course, in areas where you have a lot of biomass, it will be a very simple technique,\" said Matthew Stuber . \", Professor of Chemistry and biomolecular engineering at the University of Connecticut, water system expert, one of the judges of the panel of experts.
He called their water.
Making the machine a \"very cool\" Fusion, incorporating fairly simple technology that can be used to quickly supply water to areas that suffer from natural disasters, drought and even water scarcity in rural areas.
Hertz and his wife are just beginning to think about how to do this.
They are one of 98 teams from 27 countries.
When the couple mortgaged their Malibu house to stay in the game, many teams were bigger and better funded.
On one occasion, they were told that they did not enter the last round of the fifth round, but there was a team out and they came back.
\"If you say we are the dark horse in the game, we don\'t even play,\" Hertz recalls with a smile . \".
When his wife was ready to leave for a photo shoot, he stood next to a huge copy of the check in the office and a tourist tasted a glass of water they had freshly made.
Now, however, they are in a long, humid transport.
\"There is no limit on how to use it,\" Hertz said of the award . \".
\"But Laura and I have promised to use all this for the development and deployment of these machines to get them to the people who need the most water.
It started with humility: David Hertz, who knows that you can really make your own water with thin air under the right conditions, put a small device on the roof of his office and start offering a bottle of water for free for anyone who wants it.
Soon he and his wife, Laura Doss
Hertz thinks bigger.
So much so that the couple won $1 this week.
Water richness 5 million XPrize.
They dominate the development of a system that uses containers, wood chips and other debris to produce 2,000 liters of water per day at a cost of no more than 2 cents per liter.
The XPrize competition, created by a group of philanthropist, entrepreneurs and others, has received over $0. 14 billion in bonuses over the years, known as the bold futuristic ideas designed to protect and improve the planet.
The first XPrize of $10 million is from Microsoft.
In 2004, Paul Allen, the founder of SpaceShipOne, the first privately financed manned space shuttle, and Bert Rutan, the aviation pioneer.
So a few years ago, when Hertz learned who could come up with a cheap prize, he decided that the innovative way to produce clean fresh water for a world without enough fresh water.
At that time, his little water
People who make machines take out 150 gallons a day, most of them for homeless people living in the back alley of Hertz Venice Beach environmental construction studio --
A regional company specializing in the creation of green buildings.
He and his wife, a commercial photographer, and their partner, Richard Groden, created a smaller machine that assembled the Skysource/Skywater Alliance and started working
They decided to generate the temperature and humidity needed to absorb water from the air and from the wood itself by heating the wood chips, thus creating a small rainstorm in the container.
\"The most attractive thing about containers is that they import more than they export, so there is usually a surplus,\" Hertz said . \" Containers are cheap and easy to move, he added.
If you don\'t have wood chips to heat up, coconut shells, rice, walnut shells, grass crumbs, or any other waste like that will do a great job.
\"Of course, in areas where you have a lot of biomass, it will be a very simple technique,\" said Matthew Stuber . \", Professor of Chemistry and biomolecular engineering at the University of Connecticut, water system expert, one of the judges of the panel of experts.
He called their water.
Making the machine a \"very cool\" Fusion, incorporating fairly simple technology that can be used to quickly supply water to areas that suffer from natural disasters, drought and even water scarcity in rural areas.
Hertz and his wife are just beginning to think about how to do this.
They are one of 98 teams from 27 countries.
When the couple mortgaged their Malibu house to stay in the game, many teams were bigger and better funded.
On one occasion, they were told that they did not enter the last round of the fifth round, but there was a team out and they came back.
\"If you say we are the dark horse in the game, we don\'t even play,\" Hertz recalls with a smile . \".
When his wife was ready to leave for a photo shoot, he stood next to a huge copy of the check in the office and a tourist tasted a glass of water they had freshly made.
Now, however, they are in a long, humid transport.
\"There is no limit on how to use it,\" Hertz said of the award . \".
\"But Laura and I have promised to use all this for the development and deployment of these machines to get them to the people who need the most water.
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