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lordsummerisle

(4,651 posts) Fri Oct 26, 2018, 06:00 PM Oct 2018

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Water out of thin air: California couple's device wins $1.5M

From AP:

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It started out modestly enough: David Hertz, having learned that under the right conditions you really can make your own water out of thin air, put a little contraption on the roof of his office and began cranking out free bottles of H2O for anyone who wanted one.

https://www.apnews.com/88077278c6b04658952ad7a148219b73

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Water out of thin air: California couple's device wins $1.5M (Original Post) lordsummerisle Oct 2018 OP

Isn't this a dehumidifier? Perhaps I'm missing something here...I read the article and ... SWBTATTReg Oct 2018 #1

My favorite is the Warka Tower airplaneman Oct 2018 #2

Thanks for the link. nt eppur_se_muova Oct 2018 #5

So, heating up wood, I would assume combustion is involved? OnlinePoker Oct 2018 #3

I prefer moisture vaporators myself, but it's so difficult to find petronius Oct 2018 #4

SWBTATTReg

(22,129 posts)

1. Isn't this a dehumidifier? Perhaps I'm missing something here...I read the article and ...

Reply to lordsummerisle (Original post)

Fri Oct 26, 2018, 06:07 PM

Oct 2018

basically they described new stuff / technologies to pull the h2o out of the air, but a dehumidifier does the same thing. What am I missing here?

airplaneman

(1,239 posts)

2. My favorite is the Warka Tower

Reply to lordsummerisle (Original post)

Fri Oct 26, 2018, 06:47 PM

Oct 2018

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-tower-pulls-drinking-water-out-of-thin-air-180950399/

https://thumbs-prod.si-cdn.com/-adbAwn8OEfWPpjfMxjAIB7AFd0=/800x600/filters:no_upscale()/

eppur_se_muova

(36,263 posts)

5. Thanks for the link. nt

Reply to airplaneman (Reply #2)

Sat Oct 27, 2018, 12:34 AM

Oct 2018

OnlinePoker

(5,720 posts)

3. So, heating up wood, I would assume combustion is involved?

Reply to lordsummerisle (Original post)

Fri Oct 26, 2018, 06:58 PM

Oct 2018

I wonder what the carbon footprint is of these units, especially if you take into account the transport and chipping of the source material.

petronius

(26,602 posts)

4. I prefer moisture vaporators myself, but it's so difficult to find

Reply to lordsummerisle (Original post)

Fri Oct 26, 2018, 07:27 PM

Oct 2018

a droid that speaks their binary language...

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