This GENius machine generates Water from thin air

Water, A vital nutrient, yet one that is inaccessible to many worldwide.
The World Health Organization reports that 780 million people don't have access to clean water, and 3.4 million die each year due to water-borne diseases. But an Israeli company thinks it can play a part in alleviating the crisis by producing drinking water from thin air.



“The clean air enters our GENius heat exchanger system where it is dehumidified, the water is
removed from the air and collected in a collection tank inside the unit,” says co-CEO Arye Kohavi.
“From there the water is passed through an extensive water filtration system which cleans it from possible chemical and microbiological contaminations,” he explains. “The clean purified water is stored in an internal water tank which is kept continuously preserved to keep it at high quality over time.”

Energy efficient
     Capturing atmospheric humidity isn't a ground-breaking invention in itself -- other companies already sell atmospheric water generators for commercial and domestic use -- but Water-Gen says it has made its water generator more energy efficient than others by using the cooled air created by the unit to chill incoming air.
There are currently two versions of the water-generators; One known as the Ground Atmospheric Water Generator Unit (GEN-G) which can produce up to 450 litres/day and is the larger of the two, and there is also the Vehicle Atmospheric Water Generator Unit which is designed for use and transport in vehicles and can produce 30-75 litres/day depending on environmental conditions.

security personnel, making use of the GENius product.

The units weigh a whopping 1100 and 175 pounds, respectively, and prices start at $18,000 for the vehicle model and $30,000 for the larger ground model.
The technology itself is nothing new but the company claim to have achieved the best efficiency on the market right now. The secret to this efficiency is the use of the cooled air to cool the new air flowing in. This means that water production costs are significantly lowered.
“Several companies tried to extract water from the air,” says Kohavi. “It looks simple, because air conditioning is extracting water from air. But the issue is to do it very efficiently, to produce as much water as you can per kilowatt of power consumed.”
He adds: “When you’re very, very efficient, it brings us to the point that it is a real solution. Water from air became actually a solution for drinking water.”

- Sources: interesting engineering and CNN