Day 2 - 360 Fold Out Solar Still Concept

 

My final uni project was quite ambitious that saw me centering around water and harnessing it for good. I went from researching household micro generators to be attached to water mains to the more sensible, solar still concepts for rural third world countries. I had gone through so many iterations that even my teacher had not seen the concept in my final presentation... And what a fail that concept was!

Any-who, this was me revisiting that path trying to redeem myself. This was inspired from a simple solar still that would stretch out into a larger container.

My concept works like a hand fan that stretches instead of 180 degrees, 360 degrees forming a full circle still.

Yeah I know! Far from any resolution I'm already asking

• How does the user fill the vessel?
• Can something like that be manufactured?
• How does the user get to the clean water?
• What about the cavities inside? How will it behave when folded in?

Who knows? But if I do have some time, i would lie to return and explore its potential or save me the effort and someone (an engineer perhaps) tell me that this concept is not viable.