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Questions and answers

Below I have provided answers for an interview www.sitiosolar.com . Sitiosolar.com has already published an article on trickle solar last June.

ss Who invented or technical origin is solar drip irrigation?
hh: The inventillo has happened to me this spring after having experienced years ago with similar things such as a drip system made of these plastic bottles and aluminum foil (Albala). Presumably, the idea has occurred to other people in the world is simple. I do not know. I know there are a lot of research, inventions and patents made in this direction, solar distillation systems and water saving systems in the garden, etc., but none are free, so accessible to everyone, so easy to do and so effective. The only tool we need to make a solar drip is one of the oldest and most widespread tools of mankind, a knife. There will be plenty of spare parts as so much garbage we produce. Of course there are many other ways to save water in the garden with mulch, stones, plastic sheeting, conventional drip or underground tanks, burying two containers near the plant in the same way as the Kondenskompressor: The small container serves as deposit, large as cover. A modern adaptation of old techniques that buried clay pots near the plant. The system is a little more work and the roots can reach the tank, which can be an advantage if the water is good. With the outdoor Kondenskompressor produce distilled water which is enriched by solar radiation, similar to rain, we can avoid salts, nitrates and other contaminants. Underground or above in both cases not only save a lot of water, we can save time and money. Ss

What types of crops is possible to use the Kondenskompressor?
hh: The solar trickle Kondenskompressor is made from recycled plastic bottles. We have to make do with the designs and shapes that exist or appear in the tide of consumption. You can not use the Kondenskompressor for golf in the desert or to a wheat field. It is an invention for industrial agriculture, but good for agriculture in the community, the neighborhood garden, apple, family, structures and crops will be obviously more important in the future, both environmentally and economically. You can use the system in any crop of vegetables, depending on the material of what we have and creativity. A five-liter bottles are best adapted crops that need a minimum of 20cm between plants. Where I see the system is useful in 'the field of reforestation. " We can plant trees in the mountains, in places with no infrastructure or electricity and running water, or wherever, and make sure the drip site - combined with a mulch, stones, etc underground reservoirs. - Some moisture in the soil without having to go every day to water. Ss

What effect does kondenskompressor in cold periods on the plants?, Do something frost affect system performance?
hh: Kondenskompressor The lid has a double function: traps moisture in summer and winter acts as a greenhouse, if you set up the plant rather than above the reservoir. Use bottles and small plastic greenhouses is a very popular technique for the Mediterranean, where the winter is to cold. Ss

"The use of sea water poses particular difficulty for the use of Kondenskompressor?
hh: No, the quality of water in the tank is not very important. But it is interesting to see what is left in the tank once the liquid has evaporated. If any difficulty is knowing the right time for additional watering. This time depends on weather conditions, the amount of moisture in the soil. Ss

How often is necessary to fill the internal water tank the KonKom?
hh: The Kondenskompressor not work miracles, but saving water and plant growth if it is miraculous. To get a decent harvest in areas and times of drought, irrigation is inevitable, but watering intervals are much longer and the minimum amount of water in relation to a crop without solar drip. The 24 tomato plants that were used for the experiment were equipped with a Kondenskompressor each: I filled the tanks with only once or so a pint of water for each tank, ie, plants used between 1 liter and a liter and a half water each, including irrigation for planting. And this water has been sufficient for more than three months including crop growth. Because so little water? Because most of the trapped moisture comes from the ground and then back to the ground. Or put another way: the more the reservoir to the wall of the cover, more water evaporates from the tank and under the ground. - Early July was 14 weeks from planting date when the experiment ended. The plants spent the first seven, eight weeks without rain, cold and windy, followed by ten days of heavy and unusual rains and again last five weeks without rain with plenty of sunshine and heat. Despite having been infected by fungi in early June of 24 plants I have harvested about 24 kilos edible tomatoes few kilos more rotten. It is a great vintage, but quite considerable for the ridiculous amount of water and labor employed and fungal attacks we have had to suffer this year across the region. Ss

How long is the lifetime of each Konkom and maintenance time must be given?
hh: We have to use plastics that are suitable for food, such as PET or better ecological plastics difficult to find time for the market. If we have the possibility of using plastic instead of glass for a solar trickle, no health issues or about life. The glass does not rot. Plastic, If it rots. Although it is claimed that plastic takes 500 years to decompose, the reality is different. Exposed to the sun, becomes brittle and loses in a few years of stability. At this end it is time to throw them away for recycling. I have not, nor have I found facts, and I do not think there is, but apparently should easily hold between two and five years of operation. Maintenance is reduced to control condensation, change a cover if necessary and remove intruders that can grow inside. Ss

What personal experience and objective results you have obtained the use of this technique?
hh: As I said, with Kondenskompressor I needed a total of just over a liter of water for every kilo of tomato, this amount can add water to the unusual and disastrous rainfall amounts to about 3 liters of irrigation. In total about 4 liters! Another patch with 12 conventionally irrigated tomato at the same time consuming 10 times more water. It is an objective outcome for a very bad season that unfortunately ended in early July, leaving me with no data or results or harvest for the warmer months of the year. For a good crop water use for these months would be larger, but still ridiculous. Besides the poor condition this year the experiment itself was a bit bad conceptualized and hasty, but it seemed important publish my first experiences with this device through a blog, which has complicated my life a little. Many people ask me for more information, more numbers, more studies that I can not give. For this there are universities and institutes from now can make precise studies for each area and publish the results. But in the end each garden has its conditions and the result, the harvest depends on many factors. Ss

What response and that implementation is having this system among farmers?
hh: I get mail delivered positive and also critical, although very few people have come to the news. Recently a friend told me that he had information they are using the technique to very large scale in a country in Africa. But did not know which country, or knew if they had learned the technique on the web or had invented them, which would not surprise me. Another friend told me that he explained the technique to a peasant - Catalan name for a peasant / farmer - about ninety years on the island of Formentera. The old farmhouse freaked first, then took a tantrum because he had not thought of the idea during his long life, he was concerned about the water and always thought salines build greenhouses on to have enough water on the island. Ss

What projection think you have the system in poor countries or developing countries?
hh: The Kondenskompressor not a solution 'low cost', is a solution 'No cost', it costs nothing, is a gifted investment. Installation time and maintenance is similar to or less than installing a conventional drip. There is no shortage slopes as water towers etc. electricity or other facilities to work. Not having a facility expenses for agricultural farming with a minimum amount of water and have more time to pursue other income are weapons that can help reduce hunger and strengthen the economic independence. It seems absurd, but the more raises the price of water more profits multiply with a solar trickle.

ssFenómenos weather like strong winds or heavy rain What are the effects on Kondenskompressor?
hh: With the lid put two fingers into the ground and piling excavated at the sides perfectly resists high winds and is even useful as a windshield for young plants. Under the Kondenskompressor the roots are protected from both direct rainfall and the heat. If phenomena are rather disaster is unfortunately the crop that is damaged first.