The Wind Drinker winner of TEDxChallenge award (project in somaliland)

[Wiil Cusub]

 

The Winddrinker desalinates brackish water with reverse osmosis technology

 

We make clean drinking water affordable for the poor. The Winddrinker turns salt water into clean drinking water utilizing solely wind energy. It is thé promising solution to solve water problems in dry coastal areas of developing countries.

 

The Winddrinker combines a windmill and a desalination pump in the most efficient way. A mechanical coupling ensures a cheap, simple and reliable technology. This technology has been developed by researchers of the Delft University of Technology. At this moment we are developing a prototype that will produce an average of 60.000 liters healthy drink water per day for at least 10000 people in Somaliland (Northern independent part of Somalia).

 

Our mean strategy is to bring this technology on the market in developing countries through stimulation of local entrepreneurship. Local entrepreneurs can set-up franchise businesses following our unique implementation triangle; beside access to the Winddrinker technology they get access to capital and education.

 

The Delft University of Technology (DUT) has proved the technology in 2008 in Curacao. We have secured technical partnerships with the DUT and Hatenboer Waters to commercialize the technology. Together we are finalizing an optimized design. Additionally we have secured sufficient funding to build a demonstration project in Somaliland. Hivos, Aqua for All, DUT and Students for Sustainability are our funding partners.

 

[Wiil Cusub]

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[N.O.R.F]

Wow amazing. So simple yet so important. Great concept.

[Carafaat]

Wonder what genius mind took the initiative?

[Valenteenah.]

Renewable technology is definitely the way forward.

[Somalia]

Absolute garbage. What's really needed are desalination plants on the coast..

[N.O.R.F]

^how will it be paid for? Its not cheap.

[Somalia]

I know it's is quite expensive depending on the size of the plant. But in the near future that's what the regions should look at. Israel has half a dozen of desalination plants and it greened up the land.

 

It is one of the few sustainable methods left for farming etc. There will always be oceans but not wind, so investing in wind energy is not good.

[Wiil Cusub]

N.O.R.F;761952 wrote:

^how will it be paid for? Its not cheap.

It cost 96 K $ and fonded by TEDx with Akvo org

http://www.akvo.org/rsr/projects/all/?locations__country=22&continent=af

[Wiil Cusub]

Somalia;761930 wrote:

Absolute garbage. What's really needed are desalination plants on the coast..

U need one in Garowe village meeshaan saabuunta ku maydhankari waynay qadhaadhka biyaheega awgeed.

[N.O.R.F]

Somalia;761969 wrote:

I know it's is quite expensive depending on the size of the plant. But in the near

future

that's what the regions should look at. Israel has half a dozen of desalination plants and it greened up the land.

 

It is one of the few sustainable methods left for farming etc. There will always be oceans but not wind, so investing in wind energy is not good.

Desalination plants are not sustainable. They require power (electricity). On top of that you need to supply homes (water pipe infrastructure). Its something that takes decades to do with the right planning and is often only available to those on the coast.

 

Wiil cusub, my question was to Somalia.

[Somalia]

N.O.R.F;761980 wrote:

Desalination plants are not sustainable. They require power (electricity). On top of that you need to supply homes (water pipe infrastructure). Its something that takes decades to do with the right planning and is often only available to those on the coast.

 

Wiil cusub, my question was to Somalia.

If you have a government which claims it gets $100 million dollars in income per year, in 2010, you should be able to pay for it. lol

 

Of course they require electricity but water is an indispensable commodity, how would one get it without desalination plants? I am sure you are aware wells dry up. There's a shortage of water in the world, one must tackle it straight away.

 

Wiil Cusub;761975 wrote:

U need one in Garowe village meeshaan saabuunta ku maydhankari waynay qadhaadhka biyaheega awgeed.

The village looks great, it has neat roads which is a rarity in your so-called capital. The village looks far better than a city which has buildings bombed out from the 1980s.

 

EDIT: Desalination plants take advantage of solar power.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Archdemos]

I'm inclined to agree with Norf. Desalination plants at least in their current forms are very resource hungry and will require much more than $100 million dollars to sustain if adequate supporting infrastructure development is taken into account. So no it most definitely not a viable option for such a poor country like Somalia.

I'm loving this winddrinker idea, simple and sustainable.

[Wiil Cusub]

The village looks great, it has neat roads which is a rarity in your so-called capital. The village looks far better than a city which has buildings bombed out from the 1980s.

All that may be is true but still salty water an u need good clean water

[N.O.R.F]

Somalia,

 

$100m for a desalination plant is quite cheap (this will depend on required capacity).

 

ps this isn't a Somaliland vs Puntland/Somalia thread.