https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/6/eaao5323.full
I was looking for fog collectors when I stumbled upon this interesting research study. It's not by Dr Pollack, but since it concerns electrostatics and water, I figured it fits right in.
The technicalities go way beyond my stoner mind, but it looks like the basic premise of the study is an enhancement to water fog catchers using electrostatically charged electrodes, because water droplets are attracted to the charged electrodes, thus harvesting water from the air, faster, and more efficiently.
The results of the experiment are quite convincing too (see attachment below/paper above). Where as a conventional meshed fog catcher only have about 1-2% efficiency, by using a high-voltage collector, the difference at which water is collected is like night-and-day!
See here for video of experiments too.
This one in particular (.mp4; 16MB), a time-lapse of 30mins without corona discharge and with. The comparison is mind-blowing!
While the operating voltages that we are using are on the order of 10 kV, the current is low and on the order of 0.01 mA. The power consumption in our experimental setup is thus ~0.1 W for a 5 cm × 5 cm mesh, which translates to about 40 W/m2.
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In particular, one of the major applications of this study is the recovery of water from cooling tower plumes in power plants, where fog is much more concentrated and is on the order of 5000 liters/m2 per day. In that case, the energy consumption is esti- mated to be ~0.2 kWh/m3, which is one to two orders of magnitude lower than the energy consumption to produce clean water from con- ventional sources. [...]
We can adjust the voltage according to wind speed and droplet size to maintain a constant throughput of harvested fog water. When designing an active collection mesh, our model also offers design guidelines for the wire size, wire spacing, and operating voltage that should be chosen so as to remain below the voltage saturation and the spacing saturation in typical operating conditions to maximize collection while conserving energy.
I can't pin-point exactly why, but I think this relates directly to something that Dr Pollack talks about, which is the Kelvin Water Dropper:
From my understanding, this is a simple apparatus that generates high voltage static from water droplets falling into a conducive cylinder.
I feel like the two projects can be combined to create a self-sufficient water harvester near coastal areas with plenty of humid winds.
In the prophetic words of Fela,
Water No Get Enemy 
PS: Found this AWESOME version done by Veritasium on Youtube!
