We accomplished a lot on this trip and completed the Noah’s Ark Disaster Relief Trailer. Its first event was at Harvestfest at Kula Elementary on Saturday, November 18, 2023, to great reviews. It was even requested to stay for the short Thanksgiving week to provide water and education to the kids as well as be available for the Community Meeting with FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers (we did live feeds from those events).

During operations at the school, we produced over 160 gallons of water in an 11-hour period with the temperature hovering around 60 degrees all night but 70%-100% RH (yes, it rained some that night). That equates to 349 gallons in a 24-hour period. The operation was accomplished with approximately 6 gallons of diesel, or $30 (diesel is expensive in Maui), for a cost of $0.1875/gallon. Again, the results of this test were live-fed on FB and stored on the drive.

I. Maui Trip- Nov 15-29- Here are the things we accomplished.

  1. Replace water tank on Disaster Relief Trailer (DRT)
  2. Installed Generator.
  3. Got lights and brakes on the trailer.
  4. Hooked up the PsS 10565 (our newest product—the Ozone Purification Box) to the water system on OW Ranch and the 250-gallon tank. (Videos available—did not take a picture)
  5. Deliver the DRT unit to Kula. This was all accomplished on Thursday and Friday, November 16-17.
  6. Harvestfest on Saturday and additional testing at Kula Sunday-Wed.
  7. Mon-Wed: Dispense water to kids and teach about water.
  8. Numerous other meetings with people provided from OW Ranch—Ryan (Generator), Charlie (Electrician), James (Trailer expert)
  9. Meetings with:
    1. Pastor Corey is on distribution and solar trailers—he is on board.
    2. Marv—He built the trailer the DRT is on and the second solar trailer in progress.
    3. Donny—Building Tiny Houses. This was accomplished Sat-Thursday (Thanksgiving)
  1. We visited numerous sites that need electricity and water and met with the nonprofits and operators. All want more info on the Solar/Water trailer. Some organizations are awaiting the approval of grants for Footprintproject.org, along with the 10 T12s and 4 T150s they have submitted. Pastor Corey installed solar panels and a Tesla Powerwall.
  2. Built a prototype and painted the 1st solar trailer.
    1. 16 panels
    2. 6 kWh
    3. Comes with either 1 T150 or 3 T12s.
  1. Handed off all parts and manuals to Noah’s Arc
  2. Developed a presentation for Hubs and shelters we visited.
  3. Followed up with all potential distributors.

II. Ecuador—In all of the excitement of our first DRT hitting the road, we ignored everything going on in Ecuador.

We are drawing up documents to make NUBIOS E.C. our exclusive distributor in Ecuador. Carlos from EyC, our metal fabricator, bought three (3) T12 machines and traveled to Ecuador to set up distribution. Here is what he accomplished:

  1. Got the Universidad Catolica de Santiago de Guayaquil (https://www.ucsg.edu.ec/) to run tests on the T12—the water production came back higher than we represent in our owner’s manual. We now have third-party testing data for our T12.
  2. Set up presentations with a staff of PhDs responsible for different aspects of the Universidad.
  3. Developing water hubs for implementation at the school and completing a 3D rendition of it.
  4. Purchasing 2 T-150s and 4 T12s with dispensing

III. South Florida DRT—Working with Mind Army on 2nd

  1. Building the T300 now with one for Maka project

IV. Additional work being done

After meeting with the homeless shelter across from the airport on Hana Highway, Pastor Corey installed a Tesla solar wall to power their Medical Trailer. He reviewed Altitude’s report and suggestions on water with the Operations manager on the site, and they are excited to work with us. The medical trailer is running 100% on solar, and we are working with the company to include AWGs in the trailers.

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