aquahouse Feasibility Review
EXCERPTS
G.H.D Group
Prepared by: Conestoga-Rovers & Associates
651 Colby Drive, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2V 1C2
office: (519) 884-0510, fax: (519) 884-0525
> 1.0 INTRODUCTION
Conestoga-Rovers & Associates (CRA 8500 employees now merged with E.N.R) is a family of companies that provides comprehensive engineering, environmental consulting, construction, and information technology (IT) services. CRA employs more than 2,700 people in over 90 offices in six different countries. Since its establishment in 1976, CRA has provided practical, innovative, and effective services in such areas as environmental site assessment and remediation, regulatory compliance and permitting, environmental health and safety, solid and hazardous waste management, air quality management, and municipal infrastructure planning and design.
CRA has prepared this report at the request of Joseph Ieradi, the patent holder.
The system is intended for a desert area in close proximity to a large body of salt water, using natural evaporation and condensation processes. The structure in the patent contains a rectangular reservoir, at its base with an effective evaporating surface area of 3,000 square feet. The width of the structure is 30 feet, and the length is approximately 100 feet.
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> 2.0 CONCLUSION
“The Aqua House has potential to provide a necessary, depleting resource.”
“Aqua House may provide up to 8,040 liters of water per day.”
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Profitability
The low cost of the Aqua House – $20,000 per unit, can irrigate 6 to 8 acres of suitable vegetation for the area.
500.000 Aqua Houses annually, for 25 years, could re-capture 100.000.000 acres of desert land.
• Yearly cost 10 Billion.
• Total land recovered 4 million acres per year.
+ Total cost – $2,500 per acre of arable land recovered.
+ 2.5% to be sold as a development land. Total 2.500.000 acres.
+ Developable land, oceanfront properties, price: $2.500.000 per acre.
Yearly income 100.000 acres = $250 Billion.
+ Farmland value 97.500.000 acres x $5.000 = 487.5 Billion.
+ Total over 25 years – $6.7 Trillion.
+ Food value ?
+ Lithium extraction from salt (by-product) ?