this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2025
40 points (97.6% liked)
Solarpunk technology
2615 readers
43 users here now
Technology for a Solar-Punk future.
Airships and hydroponic farms...
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
20,000 Volts at what current? At some point, desalination becomes cheaper. Alsogetting electricity at dawn is hard because solar panels don't work.
i mean if you know anything about electicity it should be pretty clear that he's not putting that kind of power into this, desalination is REALLY energy intensive.
also it's kinda irrelevant since you can't desalinate water you don't have..
I watched the video yesterday and it looks like he’s using wires that are no more than 18 gauge.
18 gauge wire can handle about a maximum of 14 amps, but I don’t think he was coming close to that. He was generating 35kV (I think - he had a few prototypes he gave stats for) off a battery pack.
I don’t really know the math, but it’s an inverse relationship if your power level is fixed. The battery pack can only deliver so much constant power, so it’s either high amps and low volts, or high volts and low amps. (Unless you put capacitors into the mix, but then it’s not constant power.)
I suspect the fog might be an issue as well.