How we do it.

How we do it

Now we get down to how we will be implementing the re-greening project in Australia. The following section will discuss how the desalination process will work and what the project will look like. In effort to reduce costs we are still improving the system.

An illustration of the setup. Click the image to get a larger version.	As you can see from the illustration, the installations will be based on the coast, with desalinators being powered by solar cells. Purified water is then pumped to designated agricultural areas and staff housing.
A diagram of one of the desalinators which can be used. Visit also the homepage of International Solar Collectors, Inc.	The system on the left (Solar Troughs) promises to be less expensive than the RO-module system (below). In a constant effort to reduce costs, Greenwinds is currently investigating one other system that can be used for the desalination of salt water for irrigation purposes. To produce high quality drinking water for the site staff, our engineers have yet found no better system than the RO-module system shown below. Water desalination has only recently started to experience rapid growth and new or improved systems are entering the market more and more frequently. If you know of a desalination technology you think we haven't considered, yet, please contact us (see contact page). The desalinated water is then pumped to a mineral tank which adjusts the pH of the slightly acidic water, and the very salty waste water is pumped back into the ocean a distance from the water input area. After having minerals added to the water, it is stored in assigned tanks for drinking and industrial water. To kill bacteria, drinking water is again treated with small amounts of chlorine. It is also possible, from there on, to forward water via high or low pressure canalisation systems to wherever needed.
Click above for a large (141k) version of this image.	This is a first conceptional design of the site containing staff housing, wind mills, storage houses, solar panels, water tanks for desalinated water and protection shelters for the plantations. The status of the whole project will be published later in a more details on the web and is accessable for Greenwinds members.