Jeremy Levan

Has anyone tried putting an additional block in the bottom that would make L shaped tiles for roofing? Some wooden beams could go across the roof and the blocks could possibly overlap. Cement would probably need to be added because these would probably be much thinner block/tiles.

That biosand option looks pretty nifty.. Hmmm, I really wish I could find that link with the 5 feet of soil information that I remember seeing a few years back. All of my searches are bring up other kinds of sand and carbon filters. It's a bit tough to find the right search words I used since "Dirt Water Filter" and other such searches want to direct me to cleaning dirty water, not using dirt to clean water.

If I stumble on the link I'll post it here, but yeah... sand and gravel and clay sounds like it would work. Are these sand filters "needy" when it comes to maintenance or does that bio-layer or organisms eating bad stuff that might hurt me do a pretty self sustaining job?

Hello, I would like to turn a backyard swimming pool into a huge "catch all" water filter. I'd want pretty much all water except the toilet stuff to be sent to this unit and then a small pump to periodicly suck out the filtered stuff and put it in a container.

How much filtering material does water need to go through before it is potable? I've heard that a dirt filter can be made to used to filter water as well but I'm not sure how much dirt I'd have to use.

I'm also thinking about using a setup where the water in the pool that is waiting to make it through the filter stays below a level where there are loose rock, this way the water being filtered isn't openly exposed to the air. I'm still playing with the idea bacause if it is too dense then might mess with the filters performance or whatever.

Anyway, any suggestions? Check the attachment.

Hello, I just joined the board. This is my first post here.

Anyway.. I was looking at some of the information about "Water from thin air" at this thread:

https://permies.com/t/18620/permaculture/Water-thin-air

I was then reminded about something I read elsewhere that in arid climates (where there might only be 10% humidity or something like that. ) there is more water in the air at higher altitudes.

So I was kind of hoping we could put our heads together on the idea of Dew Collection/ AWG/ Water from air, using kites.

Kites come in all types of sizes, even strong enough to pull commercial shipping frigates.

SkySail: http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/galleries/2008/fortune/0810/gallery.tech_windpower.fortune/images/skysails.gif

Maybe the condenser unit could funnel its water harvest down a tube to a collection tank.
Maybe the tube could also be the kite tether.. or maybe it would stretch it so much it would be closed.

Maybe a unit idea would be a lift kite with a few funnel tube kites on the tether that are coated with copper metal flake paint (I am imagining the copper paint would have a similar effect as the copper wool and the paint would make a slicker surface for the water to move across and collect on) , then when water starts forming on it and it gets heavy and saggy all the water would run to the end, down a thin tube connected to the bottom of the sock/tube.funnel that pipes over to the main drain down.

What do you folks think of the possibility of this air born water generating creature?