Friday, August 16, 2019

GERS Response

 It is simply unfair to Appellants for the Court to delay this case each time one of the Defendants-Appellees’ counsel may have a conflict . . .

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Amen!

Slashnuts said...

GreenShift's "Water Extraction" Technology Featured On PBS News...

How scientists are harvesting fog to secure the world’s water supply
Jul 31, 2019 6:35 PM EDT

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-scientists-are-harvesting-fog-to-secure-the-worlds-water-supply

Details on the "fog harp" beginning at the 3 minute mark.

Quote:

We recently licensed our fog harp water harvesting technology, developed by Jonathan Boreyko and Brook Kennedy, to Greenshift Corp., a collaboration that will bring resources into the university while helping communities around the world where water is a scarce and critical resource.



https://www.facebook.com/notes/virginia-tech/a-2019-message-from-president-sands-a-focus-on-our-priorities/10155752539166121/

"We Gratefully Acknowledge GreenShift Corporation For Providing Financial Support."

Quote:

8th International Conference on Fog, Fog Collection and Dew Taipei, Taiwan, 14–19 July 2019 IFDA2019-76 © Author(s) 2019. CC

Attribution 4.0 license. Redwood-InspiredFogHarps
Weiwei Shi (1), Thomas van der Sloot (2), Brook Kennedy (2), and Jonathan Boreyko (3) (1) Virginia Tech, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics, Blacksburg, USA (svivian@vt.edu), (2) Virginia Tech, School of Architecture and Design, Blacksburg, USA (brook.kennedy@vt.edu), (3) Virginia Tech, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Blacksburg, USA (boreyko@vt.edu)

Virtually all real-life fog harvesters are comprised of mesh netting, which suffers from dual constraints: coarse meshes cannot ef?ciently capture the micrometric fog droplets suspended in the wind, while ?ne meshes become clogged which disrupts the aerodynamics of the fog stream. Coastal redwoods obtain 34% of their water from fog drip, as fog droplets are able to effectively slide along the parallel needle arrays to fall onto the soil. Inspired by the redwood trees, we develop “fog harps" comprised of an array of ?ne, vertically oriented wires that bypasses the clogging constraint of conventional meshes. The lack of horizontal cross-wires allows captured droplets to slide unimpeded at small Bond numbers, which prevents clogging even when using micrometric wires. We observed up to a three-fold enhancement in the fog harvesting rate for scale-model harps compared to equivalent mesh netting. The water harvesting rate of our fog harps increased as the wire diameter decreased from 1.3 mm down to 250 µm. A theoretical model predicts that the fog collection ef?ciency plateaus for the wire diameter of 250 µm, indicating that the smallest wires tested here may be approaching the performance ceiling. Large fog harps (1 m × 1 m) were fabricated using a spinning frame, inspired by the bobbin winding mechanism of sewing machines. For ?eld tests, the large fog harp and an equivalent mesh frame were installed at a local farm that experiences abundant fog. Preliminary results showed that the fog harp harvested up to ?ve times more water compared to the mesh over a three-day period. The enhanced water collection rate of ourredwood-inspiredfogharpsshouldincreasethenumberofregionswherefogharvestingiseconomicallyviable.

We gratefully acknowledge GreenShift Corporation for providing financial support.



https://meetings.copernicus.org/ifda2019/IFDA2019-6-abstracts.pdf

Good Luck To All!$!$

nobody123789 said...

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn%3Aaaid%3Ascds%3AUS%3A094dfb64-830a-4d28-b59e-8798d4778410

 
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