REVIEW PAPER
Program Design for an Integrated Air-Film
System to Cope with Extreme Climate
Demands for Water, Energy, and Food
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School of Economics and Management, Hubei University of Science and Technology, Xian Ning, 437000, China
Submission date: 2024-04-24
Final revision date: 2024-08-18
Acceptance date: 2024-08-28
Online publication date: 2024-12-30
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Shaohua Hu
School of Economics and Management, Hubei University of Science and Technology, Xian Ning, 437000, China
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ABSTRACT
With the increasing frequency of extreme weather events, the demand for water, energy, and
food will continue to rise. However, after analyzing the current literature on water, energy, and food
collection systems, respectively, it can be found that current resource collection systems don’t have
the ability to respond to extreme weather. Even if current resource collection systems are expanded or
the number of existing resource collection systems increases, such passive resource-collecting systems
will struggle to cope with resource demands in extreme weather. Nevertheless, an integrated system
utilizing air film as the primary structural component devised in this paper not only offers the potential
to collect rainwater, renewable energy, and food, but also significantly enhances the yield of resources
through a symbiotic relationship between them. With the characteristics of air film, the integrated
system is designed with functions of mobility, expansion and contraction, transmission, technological
compatibility, and environmental friendliness. The above functions make the integrated system able
to integrate rainwater, renewable energy, and food production systems into a single system. From the
discussion, it is evident that the new functionality enhances the flexibility of resource collection within
the integrated system, facilitates the compatibility of disparate resource collection techniques, and
fosters the sustainability of resources through mutual support. It can be concluded that the designed
integrated system is capable of meeting the demand for water, energy, and food in extreme weather.
The flexibility of the integrated system is such that passive resource collection can be changed to active
search and acquisition of resources. The mutual support among rainwater, renewable energy, food, and
recycling of wastes serves to strengthen the adaptive capacity of the integrated system to the changing
environment, which is of great significance for socioeconomic sustenance in extreme weather.