The guy is amazing! You won't regret watching 7 minutes...

https://vimeo.com/video/158492815

Wow, this was awesome and so well done!  I could watch this several times; it's fascinating!   

Quote from: IAmGrammy on April 30, 2021, 02:00:05 PM
Wow, this was awesome and so well done!  I could watch this several times; it's fascinating!   

It always pays to work on your dreams. 

Quote from: IAmGrammy on April 30, 2021, 02:00:05 PM
Wow, this was awesome and so well done!  I could watch this several times; it's fascinating!   

Such a simple answer, just need patience. I was dumbfounded at how simple it was and the results were amazing .

I wish so badly that I could have water here on my property.  Tennessee is so rocky (Rocky Top) and they say that there are sinkholes around that would keep me from being able to have a pond.  Tennessee has plenty of water; it's just that I live in a particularly rocky place with a ton of cedars and it's hard to get property to even perk, let alone produce a pond.  I was willing to invest the money to try but the locals are telling me that the sinkholes would drain any pond I could dig.  If my old dad were still living (but he'd be 114 years old now, so it's probably better for him that he's not) he could show me where to dig.  Back home in Louisiana, people used to get him to come out and "divine" where the water was with a branch in his hands.  He was awfully good at it.   

Quote from: IAmGrammy on April 30, 2021, 02:32:31 PM
I wish so badly that I could have water here on my property.  Tennessee is so rocky (Rocky Top) and they say that there are sinkholes around that would keep me from being able to have a pond.  Tennessee has plenty of water; it's just that I live in a particularly rocky place with a ton of cedars and it's hard to get property to even perk, let alone produce a pond.  I was willing to invest the money to try but the locals are telling me that the sinkholes would drain any pond I could dig.  If my old dad were still living (but he'd be 114 years old now, so it's probably better for him that he's not) he could show me where to dig.  Back home in Louisiana, people used to get him to come out and "divine" where the water was with a branch in his hands.  He was awfully good at it.   

I live on rock as well, tons of Cedars, Doug fir etc, but I also have native grass along with about 30+ springs that keep two spring fed creeks running year around.
Nature is a funny thing, just waiting for someone to tap into it.
Maybe it's not too late for you to try what he accomplished?

Quote from: Solar on April 30, 2021, 02:47:38 PM
I live on rock as well, tons of Cedars, Doug fir etc, but I also have native grass along with about 30+ springs that keep two spring fed creeks running year around.
Nature is a funny thing, just waiting for someone to tap into it.
Maybe it's not too late for you to try what he accomplished?

I'm going to get my husband to watch this video and try to convince him that we should give it a try!  He's registered here but hasn't wandered onto the board yet, ha.  I'd love to try this!

Quote from: IAmGrammy on April 30, 2021, 02:56:02 PM

I'm going to get my husband to watch this video and try to convince him that we should give it a try!  He's registered here but hasn't wandered onto the board yet, ha.  I'd love to try this!

I'd love to see you give it a shot, this is amazing, I'd love it if you could reproduce his results.

https://www.israel21c.org/tal-ya-water-makes-the-most-of-dew/

Israel has this interesting take on getting humidity from air for watering plants.

"An Israeli company has developed a reusable plastic tray to collect dew from the air, reducing the need to water crops by up to 50 percent.

For about $1 a piece, per plant, a square serrated tray made from a special plastic composite sits directly on the ground. The reusable tray is fitted with a hole in the center for a plant to grow. Using non-PET recycled and recyclable plastic with UV filters, and a limestone additive, Tal-Ya's trays do not degrade in the sun or after the application of pesticides or fertilizers.

An aluminium additive helps the trays — about 70 cm by 70 cm for a pepper plant — respond to shifts in temperature between night and day. When a change of 12 degrees centigrade occurs, dew forms on both surfaces of the Tal Ya tray, which funnels the dew and condensation straight to the plant and its roots.

The trays are also made in larger sizes for trees, Avraham Tamir, the company head and inventor tells ISRAEL21c.

Weeds out weeds, uses less water and fertilizer

"Using our system has a number of benefits," Tamir says. Farmers don't need to worry about weeds because the trays block the sun, so weeds can't take root. "Farmers need to use much less water, and in turn much less fertilizer on the crop," he explains. Less fertilizers and pesticides means less groundwater contamination.

Locking together like pieces of LEGO, special sections of the tray make space for irrigation and watering equipment to fit into the solution. 

Field tests in Israel with the Ministry of Agriculture suggests whopping water savings of up to 50 percent of irrigated water by using the Tal-Ya system. 

"Dew collection starts at night," Tamir says. "The critical mass goes down below," he explains while pointing to the serrated edges of the trays. If it rains, we can amplify 1 mm of rain so that it equals 27 mm."


If I was going to live in the Desert, I'd seriously look into these things.