This project develops unique patented technology Cloud Power and Water (AirHES). This technology is a synergistic sum of 3 known technologies: conventional hydropower, aerostats or kites, and fog (cloud) collectors, and allows getting cheap renewable hydropower, and fresh water directly from usual clouds anywhere for all.

About 1/4 of the sun's energy is used to evaporate water. This water forms the clouds and potentially corresponds to a huge power of ~800 TW (50 times more than all the needs of people around the world, and 400 times more than the power of all power plants).

Technology AirHES allows to use this renewable energy to quickly solve the problems of energy and climate, and provide all people with a source of freshwater (11 times greater than the flow of all the rivers).

For water supply purpose, this solution is unique and global. Only this solution allows you to get perfect freshwater almost anywhere without spending energy, but vice versa at the same time receiving energy.

Any other ways to get fresh water where it is not available are either local (like fog collection systems) or require significant energy costs (like systems for condensing water from air, desalination, evaporation, reverse osmosis, etc.)

For energy supply purposes, this solution ranks among other renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind), but potentially outperforms them in terms of technical and economic assessments and internal storage capabilities.

Our global aim is getting cheap renewable hydropower, and fresh water directly from usual clouds anywhere for all.

The Israeli city of Ashdod is taken as an example. Typical result of calculation and optimization:

• Payback period - 0.471 years • Cost of electricity - 0.007 USD/kWh • Water cost - 0.105 USD/m3

It is surprising that with such opportunities, the AirHES technology remains practically unclaimed for more than 12 years. If it had been introduced from the moment of its invention, oil prices would be “below the plinth” now, and no wars would be possible!

Using AirHES technology increases a resource of usual hydropower is almost 200 times and can radically solve the problem of climate change. All three methods of conversion of renewable energy (solar, wind, clouds) are of the same order of magnitude of energy density (~ 100 W/m2), but only for AirHES all this energy can be merged with practically no loss in a single point (pipe/turbine), making part of proportional m2 much cheaper than alternatives. This implies the 1-2 orders of magnitude smaller specific investment and low payback period (~ month-year), which will quickly rebuild the energetics and successfully avoid energy and climate collapse in the region 2050-2100 period. Moreover, AirHES itself can smooth out unevenness both by small hydro accumulation and much larger (600 times!) accumulation in the form of hydrogen in its balloons. And this creates the possibility of a smooth transition of existing power plants and transportation from traditional fuel to hydrogen.

We hope to be of interest to the state or a large investor who will evaluate the prospect of AirHES technology, potentially comparable to a thermonuclear program. It is especially promising to use AirHES to solve the problems of those territories and countries where the problem of fresh water shortage is acute, for example, Malta, Israel, etc. In addition, this breakthrough technology (as well as other renewable energy sources) can be saving for the climate and ecology of the entire planet.

Our calculations of the feasibility study and the complex model show that for various options for the implementation of the AirHES, the payback period can vary from a month to a year, and a typical ROI should be ~ 1000% or more…

We are looking for the minimum possible funding ~$150k for 18-36 months for R&D to bring the AirHES project to a real technical prototype with the transition to the commercial stage. If the state or the investor will believe in the prospect of AirHES, then it would be ideal to receive serious financing at the level of similar projects ~$3M.

This project is free (including patents). We give the entire project and ask only investition for R&D.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew-Kazantsev/research