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Both sides preparing for Colorado’s next water war

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on April 4, 2008 at 6:04 am

From the Fort Collins:Now:

Brian Werner remembers thinking he wouldn’t get out of the Poudre Canyon in one piece.

Two decades ago, he and other representatives from the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District had the unenviable task of announcing plans to dam the Cache la Poudre River, creating a reservoir for long-term water storage downriver of Poudre Park.

“I didn’t know if we were going to get out of there alive,” he recalled, mostly kidding.

More than 20 years have passed and plans to capture the Poudre’s waters have changed dramatically. But passionate opposition remains, and this spring, Werner might be watching his hide again, at least metaphorically.

He is the spokesman for Northern Water (the nickname for the NCWCD) and is trying to convince Northern Colorado residents of the benefits of the Northern Integrated Supply Project, known as NISP or the Glade Reservoir project.

The more than $400 million project involves 15 communities and water districts and is designed to ensure the region has enough water to accomodate population growth in the next 40 years. Opponents, who include growth skeptics and river aficionados, say the harm to the Poudre would be too great.

An Army Corps EIS on the project is due later this month, and both sides are gearing up for a contentious battle.

But the fight over Glade Reservoir is not just a fight about Fort Collins’ scenic river. It is about growth, sprawl, agriculture, the economy, recreation and a way of life that many feel is slowly dying: The agrarian culture that created Northern Colorado.

The region’s growth threatens the peace between the old and the new West, where the irrigated plains of cattle, corn and sugar beets meet the Silicon Prairie of high-tech jobs, university research and customized green lawns.

It is a microcosm of the kind of fight shaping up throughout the American West, where water is life in the most literal sense. And there’s one thing on which most people can agree: There’s not enough to sustain the status quo.

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April 4, 2008 · Filed Under National water news

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One Response to “Both sides preparing for Colorado’s next water war”

Laschober Gerhard on April 4th, 2008 8:07 am

Gerhard LASCHOBER
Austria, Europa,e-mail:gml@aon.at

Comment for diskussion
Suggestion for drinking water production by using atmospherical humidity and hot-air baloon by applying the “Perpetuum mobile” method

To solve the drinking water problem I developed an innovative method of “sweet” drinking water production and had it patented.
The name of our product “Drinking water production Perpetuum mobile” may seem a bit exaggerated and also not quite technically correct. However, to illustrate its function in hot regions with lack of water, the term is quite accurate.

Here is a brief description of how our product works (producing about 80.000 liters of drinking water a day):
There is a box hanging from a hot-air baloon, in a similar way to the baloon cage, but larger in size. On the upper side of the box are located two buoyant “floating” baloons, which can “transfer” the air released from inside of the baloon by using pressure or temperature mechanics.
All these baloons are located at a specific height. It is just above zero temperature (usually height of 3500 – 4500 meteres above sea level). To reach this height, the baloons are attached to a cable that allows them to reach the specific height, in a nearly upright positon. The baloons are attached and connected to a water condensing device which is located on the ground.
The connecting cable between the baloon and the device contains a tube made of fiber that seals and partially insulates. The shape of the cable is sustained by an inner shell manufactured of a lightweight fibre.
Cold air (about 2° Celsius) runs through the tube from the baloon to the condensing device on the ground. From the device, another tube is run back up into the baloon with air heated by the heat and cold exchange in the condensing device on the ground. The tube with heated air is insulated with a coat protecting it from sun-heat and contact from the “cold” tube.
This principle enables a self-sustaining (autarkic) and practical way of deriving water depending on the size and method of of the operation. This operation is implemented on the physical laws and their recurrence, which are based on regular changes of air density accompanied by the essential temperature changes.
Cold air comming down from the baloon through the tube to the condensing device, cools the condensing surface until the warm air from its surroundings starts to condense. Conversly, the condenser heats up by the exchange of temperature. The heated air that derives, continues to drift on its own (or semi-independently) through the tube up to the baloon box.
The heated air acts as a carrier gas until its cooled down in the baloon box and relocated by the two floating baloons by using pressure. Finally, the heated air is replaced completely by subsequent heated air.
The process of air flow described above can sustain running on its own or semi-independently. Water, derived from the condensation device, can be treated by adding minerals, additives etc. and then consumed.

The first step – a design, up to the patent registration (no.4AA 703/2007/IPC:E03B - the conclusion is positiv), was developed solely by me (as a private person). In the time frame up to the end of April 2008, I would like to research the market and marketing options, clarify the legal patent rights ( or eventually participation on it together with people insterested in it), leading to the final stage of practical implementation of my invention and application for a worldwide patent.
I am hoping to awaken lots of interest to put it into practical use. I am welcoming all comments, reviews and press service from the media (without costs for myself) – anything that can help my invention to succeed! I am looking forward to your response!

Gerhard Laschober