Consuming heat and CO2

The whole world is speaking about global warming, drought, water scarcity & starvation. But nobody is asking: WHERE IS ALL THE WATER. In reality, it’s just above our heads, captivated in hot air. Thus, we need a new name for hot air: Water storage.

FACT is: Water can’t disappear! There is no place on this planet, where there is MORE water or LESS water. In reality in Austria we don’t have MORE water than in the dried-out Sahara — just the aggregate states are different — we can’t even speak about “water shortage”. CC-air-well change the aggregate state — we make captivated water visible/accessible.

Water extraction through condensation is nothing new. Sucked in air is cooled down — what remains is water. At this point the providers of such machines are cheering: Oh, sooo much water. With the CC-air-well it starts exactly after their cheering — because there is much more “left over” than condensation water — namely “cold air”. This valuable product “cold air“ is called “garbage“ in common water extraction systems & is disposed of. CC-air-well begins with this cold air-garbage — and of course we also have the direct condensation water.

This specific amount of water at a full-size CC-air-well (1.7 billion liters/day) sounds like a lot, but from a nature’s point of view that’s not so much water — a 20-min heavy downpour in the desert on an area of 5 km2 is 1.7 billion liters of water (but nobody can do anything because of the uncertainty of where & when it will rain). For CC-air-well this is a lot of water, because we will “let it rain” always in the same place & every day — and we collect this water at a depth of 30 m.

Blown out in sufficient quantities, this “garbage” (cold air at around 2°C) is our main product — it sinks to the ground and is “far below the dew point“. That brings a lot of ground condensation: Fog and drizzle. It’s only 10 drops per m2 and second — not a big show, but in 24 hours and on 2 km2 that’s a big amount of water: 1.7 billion liters/day.

On the way to the drainage system at a depth of 30 m (where all this water is collected), this seepage water has the important Job of re-cooling the previously heated up soil. The heat is shifted into the water tank: used as drinking water, irrigation water in the forest & agriculture. We add 3°C of heat to every liter of water — we make the heat of 500 million m3 of hot desert air per day, plus the compression heat of the cooling system “disappear”.

Once the first CC-air-well is working, governments in desert countries will order CC-air-well because “DRINKING WATER” — it’s no charity, it’s their WATER BUSINESS

But for survival on this planet we humans need the “side effects” of CC-air-well: Consuming heat & CO2: active climate cooling — no extra costs for climate change, no global warming fight-program, no forced lifestyle change.

Within the first 10 years one CC-air-well consumes/captures in total 12-million tons of CO2 emissions (up to 1,000 km2 forest within 10 years) — thereafter an average of 2.1 million tons of CO2/year.