How much interest is there in water-from-air technology? Wikipedia provides page view statistics for its articles. These statistics provided a crude estimate of interest from the English-reading, Internet-using public. Here is the table I assembled, with twenty-eight Wikipedia articles listed in order of page views in the last 30 days as of April 10, 2012. I started with the reference list in the Atmospheric water generator article. As I went from one referenced article to the other a point was reached when no new relevant references were found.
The hierarchy of public interest in these related topics was made evident. The water cycle must be a popular topic in schools!
The article Atmospheric water generator, with 4178 page views was of most interest because that terminology has become widely used to describe commercial machines that produce drinking water from the ambient air. The article, Desalination, had a much higher profile, attracting 10 times as many page views. For those of us seeking to raise the profile of water-from-air technology---we have a lot of work to do given only 100 to 150 people viewed the AWG article each day. How many read it is another matter!
(By the way, I have not been a contributor to Wikipedia articles.)
Table: Water-from-air relevant topics in Wikipedia
The hierarchy of public interest in these related topics was made evident. The water cycle must be a popular topic in schools!
The article Atmospheric water generator, with 4178 page views was of most interest because that terminology has become widely used to describe commercial machines that produce drinking water from the ambient air. The article, Desalination, had a much higher profile, attracting 10 times as many page views. For those of us seeking to raise the profile of water-from-air technology---we have a lot of work to do given only 100 to 150 people viewed the AWG article each day. How many read it is another matter!
(By the way, I have not been a contributor to Wikipedia articles.)
Table: Water-from-air relevant topics in Wikipedia
| Wikipedia Article Water cycle Reverse osmosis Desalination Drinking water Water resources Rainwater harvesting Water crisis Cloud seeding Dew Solar still Water distribution on Earth Atmospheric water generator Seawater greenhouse Peak water Solar desalination Water stress Air well (condenser) Water security Watermaker Fog collection Solar humidification Sahara Forest Project Fog fence Atmospheric moisture extraction Whisson Windmill Dewvaporation Moisture farm Water from air (redirected to Atmospheric water generator) | Views in last 30 days as of April 10, 2012 104299 63147 40130 38215 31268 23797 17959 16242 10514 6557 4523 4178 3378 3179 2957 2751 2747 1325 1128 932 514 462 395 294 272 168 137 23 |
