Neat ideas, @djFragment3d!
@MPThompson is working on the design of our open source ecohome project. He’s helping develop the climate battery, a Water-energy-food nexus where we are planning to grow a 7 layer successional tropical food forest.
I was going to try to run condensation pipes down my sloped property to see if I could condense water out of air but MIchael did a complete climate analysis of Cape Town and did indeed find that as @William pointed out, the air coming into the ground, even 2 meters below is too close in temp to the ground temp that we don’t hit the dew point that often, so we wouldn’t get much condensation.
You say “I would pass the flowing warm air directly onto a cooling surface.” What is this cooling surface? You also stated: “This compressor / absorption unit would be located above the ground and the radiator would be mounted to the bottom of the hot-air drainage pipe; providing direct hot air flow to the cold cooling surface.” What is the capital cost of this and what is the energy cost? Thanks!
@sharmarval, Could your circular design students look at this design and work with Attila to create a circular design with this?