Source Global
company on 3 shows · 7 statements across 1 episodes · said 26 times in 3 episodes since 2021
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Friesen: His home groundwater had four times the legal arsenic limit
“I happen to have four times the legal limit of arsenic in the groundwater at my house, and so and I moved into that house well before I started Source Global, so I put in this arsenic treatment system, which was quite expensive to solve that problem”
Friesen: Sunlight theoretically yields two liters of water per square meter hourly
“So that means that per square meter per hour at a hundred percent efficiency, there's about two liters of thermodynamic potential to make liquid water.”
Friesen: Source hydropanels generate similar water output in Dubai and Manila
“And so you'll see that, for example, in Dubai, we create a very similar amount of water as in Manila, as an example. And so, yes, there are places and times of the year where the amount of water we produce is minimized, but on sort of an average, those places …”
Friesen: Hydropanels can eventually provide the lowest-cost potable water on Earth
“There's no Physical reason, this is a big statement, why these source hydropanels can't eventually be the lowest cost delivered potable water on the planet. Lower cost than what you flush toilets with at home, what you consider sort of free water, which of cou…”
Friesen: Source hydropanels cost $2,000 and produce water cheaper than bottled water
“So if you buy source hydropanel online, which is the way that Americans can get our hydropanels directly, they're about 2000 dollars a piece. And so, and of course you have to ship them and install them. So when you amortize that cost out, right, that's alread…”
Friesen: Advanced agriculture using 1/30th the water can run on atmospheric hydropanels
“There's no reason why Through advanced agriculture approaches that use something like one 20th or even one 30th amount of water that you couldn't produce water in the way that we do, and then grow fruits and vegetables and so on in advanced agriculture setting…”
Friesen: Renewable water hydropanels will follow exponential cost-reduction curves
“Where exponentiality has enabled solar to be really cheap, has enabled DNA testing, that's a minuscule fraction of what it was 20 years ago. Smartphones, et cetera. And the same thing is true when we started talking about renewable water. We started talking ab…”