Fog catcher, a system to condense fog and capture water. Made from easily available, recyclable materials: electrical tubes, water tubes, plastic containers, poly-shade mesh, and wood. Necessary changes can be made to adapt it to others places.
Functioning:
Air currents with a certain humidity, especially air currents that bring fog, dew or the like, pass through the mesh, which will accumulate droplets, which will grow and then descend through the mesh, reaching the black gutter that directs water to bottom bowl or base (aquamarine; can improve chances of trapping mist, system can be oriented against currents so currents pass through system, uses swivel base (white circles) in the middle) and a wind vane like those of windmills (or the black one that hardly appears in the photo). And good to give stability, turnbuckles are placed to attach to the floor.
how it’s done:It is not a unique design, the best they can do is create one based on the environmental, topographical conditions, where they want to use it; Taking into account that they want to condense water, to later collect and use it, they must take into account what use it will be for, what quality of water they collect.
A mesh traps the mist, a gutter directs it to a container, it is a basic principle. The performance of the system depends on many variables, of course the environment and the geometry of the system. Calculating that requires an exercise of exploration and attention to details such as: air humidity, the dew point in the city, the speed of the currents, the directions of the currents, wind pressure, among others.
source: Re-cicloSami E. Guzmán