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#1 2025-05-02 09:46:39
- Void
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Atmospheric Condenser
I hate to start a new topic, but did not find a suitable existing one. (If you can (th) then this can move.
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I am thinking about Mars, but maybe something for Earth can emerge here.
On Mars, a Heat Pump may also be added to a system: https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r … ORM=VAMGZC Quote:
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Mars does have fog at times, long before morning, the RH% may become 70% to 100%.
https://www.libyanexpress.com/there-is-fog-on-mars/
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I understand that ground ice on Mars has a large potential to satisfy needs, particularly for making propellants. However it may be that for some reason it may be desirable to pull water from the atmosphere to support activities at a location not having another method for water.
I have a notion for a relatively passive air flow device: 
You could have a forced convection method and alter the device in that manner.
I am presuming that you could make compressed brick materials from Mars soil to make the arch/dome, that solar panels can be mounted on.
It might be helpful to add some fiber of some kind to the brick materials, and maybe a binder is going to be needed.
I expect to embed some sort of tubing into the device to allow a heat pump to pull heat out of the arch/dome and then the solar panel during the day. That heat would be ported to some need for heat.
Wherever you had the inlet air you could put a (+) grid. I also think that you could charge a fan blade (+) to serve as the input grid.
Then I hope to use an electron beam to paint (-) on the inside of the arch/dome.
I believe a plasma window would allow that, as the window would be able to hold a vacuum for the electron beam to be formed, and would then allow the electron beam to leave the emitter(s) to paint the surfaces (-).
Probably scraping frost is the best way to extract the water, but perhaps if you had forced air you could raise the internal air pressure high enough to allow liquid water condensation.
Anyway, maybe something like this could be of use, as it is a source of heat as well as a hope for water.
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#2 2025-05-02 10:59:50
- tahanson43206
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Re: Atmospheric Condenser
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