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Rohnert Park teen comes up with novel way to store water
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/home/2674898-181/rohnert-park-teen-comes-up ^ | Sept 8 2014 | ROBERT DIGITALE

Posted on 09/08/2014 6:05:27 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey

Some students just want their science fair projects to earn a little extra credit. Steven McDowell wants his “water fence” to change the way people irrigate their yards.

“I wanted to solve the drought,” said McDowell, a 15-year-old sophomore at Rohnert Park’s Technology High School.

McDowell’s model of a fence that stores rainwater won him the top awards for his category last March at Sonoma County and Bay Area science fairs. That motivated him to form a company with his parents, pitch his idea to investors and make plans to take a section of his soon-to-be manufactured fence next month to a green construction show month in New Orleans.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: drought; water
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this kids gonna be well off
1 posted on 09/08/2014 6:05:27 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
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To: MeshugeMikey

This is most awesome.

It’s nice to see that not all 15 yr olds are spending their time beating up on old people.

I hope somebody with $$$$ helps him get his idea to market.


2 posted on 09/08/2014 6:12:04 PM PDT by CyberAnt (True the Vote: " MY AMERICA, ... I'm terrified it's slipping away.")
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To: MeshugeMikey

Not if the state decides that water belongs to them and taxes him out of existence. Like Colorado. They say rain water belongs to them and if you store it you’re stealing (well they tax the cistern you collect it in).


3 posted on 09/08/2014 6:12:21 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: MeshugeMikey

This has applications everywhere there are water problems — especially places where it rains hard in short spurts.

This kid is brilliant!


4 posted on 09/08/2014 6:13:58 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (AGW "Scientific method:" Draw your lines first, then plot your points)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Too bad the kid is white, as that means his idea is racist somehow.


5 posted on 09/08/2014 6:14:06 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: SkyDancer
Sometimes, you just have to tell John Law to pound sand.

/johnny

6 posted on 09/08/2014 6:15:29 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: MeshugeMikey
The Water Fence website estimates that a home with 2,000 square feet of roof could collect about 1,200 gallons of water for every inch of rain.

So about 10.5 inches of rain would be needed to attain the full 13,000 gallon capacity. Minus the water that is used between rainstorms.

Would be interesting to see how effective this system is in parched areas of the country.

7 posted on 09/08/2014 6:16:04 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: MeshugeMikey

First you need rain to collect...


8 posted on 09/08/2014 6:19:13 PM PDT by informavoracious (Open your eyes, people!)
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To: SkyDancer

That’s the big problem. Water collection hasn’t advanced much from olden times because the places that need it badly usually have collection laws.


9 posted on 09/08/2014 6:19:46 PM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Although I applaud this kid for thinking, the idea of collecting rain water from gutters is nothing new. My Keter brand shed does the same thing. Storing in a fence might be novel, but I think the applications limited.


10 posted on 09/08/2014 6:20:15 PM PDT by The Unknown Republican
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this kids gonna be well off

Ironic...

considering the name of the paper is The Press Democrat

11 posted on 09/08/2014 6:21:37 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Not when the EPA hears about it.


12 posted on 09/08/2014 6:21:37 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Bogey78O

The “smart” thing to do is not build a megaopolis in a damned desert. It’s not “sustainable”.


13 posted on 09/08/2014 6:23:26 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: SamAdams76
So about 10.5 inches of rain would be needed to attain the full 13,000 gallon capacity. Minus the water that is used between rainstorms.

Would be interesting to see how effective this system is in parched areas of the country.

Yeah, like where I live in the Great Basin Desert, where if we get 5 inches of rain in a normal year we are blessed.

14 posted on 09/08/2014 6:26:14 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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To: Bogey78O

Accordingly it’s better for the water to just drain into the ground than be collected and used. Liberal madness.


15 posted on 09/08/2014 6:27:31 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I think we needs some cost analysis yet....................


16 posted on 09/08/2014 6:29:48 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (The Bible doesn't say what I think it says and it says a lot of things I didn't know..........)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I like the concept. I am considering knocking it off with modifications. This is gr8!!


17 posted on 09/08/2014 6:33:51 PM PDT by iowacornman
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To: SkyDancer

Looks like a good place to grow mosquitoes for dengue fever production.


18 posted on 09/08/2014 6:34:19 PM PDT by oldasrocks (They should lock all of you up and only let out us properly medicated people.)
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Looks like a good place to grow mosquitoes for dengue fever production.

Vector Control likely will have something to say about this plan...

19 posted on 09/08/2014 6:36:35 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: iowacornman

Should be a Major boon for many of us I’d suspect


20 posted on 09/08/2014 6:36:42 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey (Please RESIGN Mr. President Its the RIGHT thing to do)
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