Wind turbine creates water from thin air
All air trapped during this procedure is then directed through an electric cooling compressor situated behind the propellers. This contraption extracts humidity from the air, creating moisture which is condensed and collected.
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One turbine can produce up to 1,000 liters of water every day, depending on the level of humidity, temperature and wind speeds, says Janin
Still pricey, however.
Coal-fired Midwest electricty costs about $(USD)0.035/kwh at the busbar, amortized. No “renewable” energy is within an order of magnitude of that, and most not within two orders of magnitude amortized. Immediate economic payback would be to condense Tule fog in California’s miracle agriculture Central Valley. Irrigation might be small stuff given scale and time of year, but truck commerce would save tens of $millions/year without a blink. One cannot do 65 mph in 100 foot horizontal visibility 3-4 months/year.
One could connect shale gas (methane) to boilers and undercut coal generation costs – no ash and particulates, only NOx scrubbing, no mercury emissionsl no Enviro-whiner scrubbing waste disposal, much lower CO2 emission/kwh for the CH4 hydrogen burned. However, shale gas presents UNKNOWN HAZARDS that must be studied until they are fully characterized. (Example: CH4 burns to water, raising sea levels.)