Synergy
Zdeněk Zátopek
Our solution focuses on the desert coast and its immediate vicinity. The key to establishing the conditions for growing plants is to unlock the limiting environmental factors. Fresh water is obtained by the desolation of seawater. The sandy substrate is cultivated on fertile soil and, for better microclimate conditions, foil is used, which reduces evaporation and consequently demands for plant irrigation.
The gain of fresh water ensures the energy of wind and the sun. By using a wind pump, seawater is fed into the water tank, from which it flows into the solar distiller on the principle of connected vessels. This works on the principle of the water cycle, when the energy is evaporated by supplying energy, and the heat is condensed as sweet. The device includes an area designed to reflect solar energy, an outbreak in which water is absorbed and heated. The fire passes through and enters the evaporation tank where it evaporates. Above it there is a countercurrent exchanger which supplies water to the distiller from the water reservoir. It absorbs the steam energy, which vapor condenses, but at the same time there is no loss of thermal energy on which the total amount of steam and then fresh water depends.
The water obtained is irrigated by bamboo grown in foil plants as well as macroscopic water algae growing in pools. Both types of plants are characterized by high biomass formation. It will be transformed by biouhel pyrolysis in the case of bamboo and compost in the case of water algae (or seaweed). Mixing these organic materials with sand will create a soil with the ability to retain moisture and nutrients. The cultivated bamboo also serves as a construction material for other wind pumps, water reservoirs, solar distillers, foils and is also used as a pipe because its stems are hollow.
The foil creates an ideal setting for plant growing. It reduces irrigation requirements approximately five times. From 5 - 10 l / m2 / day for 1 - 2 l / m2 / day. It may be a material of specific spectral permeability, so it allows the wavelengths required for plant growth, but not several others that would cause the indoor environment to overheat. The seawater flow can also be drawn from a larger depth in which it is cold, which takes up heat and sets the microclimate. "