Get Water from Desert Air!

[Hockeycowboy]

This is quite interesting!
Can you imagine if every house had this technology? Seems safe, too.

In field tests, device harvests water from desert air: System could provide drinking water even in extremely arid locations

 

[Father Heathen]

Would be very handy for those who live off the grid.

 

[Deeje]

This is quite interesting!
Can you imagine if every house had this technology? Seems safe, too.

In field tests, device harvests water from desert air: System could provide drinking water even in extremely arid locations

This is amazing!. How much moisture is in the air itself? Thanks for posting this.

 

[Nakosis]

This is quite interesting!
Can you imagine if every house had this technology? Seems safe, too.

In field tests, device harvests water from desert air: System could provide drinking water even in extremely arid locations

So we suck all of the moisture out of the air, wonder how that's going to affect the environment?

 

[Subduction Zone]

Largely overblown claims.

 

[Hockeycowboy]

So we suck all of the moisture out of the air, wonder how that's going to affect the environment?

Grief! "Total Recall", right?

"So we suck all of the moisture out of the air, wonder how that's going to affect the environment?

I was sorta wondering that, too...but it probably wouldn't affect the air further away from the device, only that which goes by it.

I mean, I wouldn't put it right next to rose bushes!

 

[Sunstone]

We might all be buying these devices once the corporations privatize all the water and the poor are reduced to drinking out of mud puddles, such as has already happened in places in South America.

 

[Hockeycowboy]

We might all be buying these devices once the corporations privatize all the water and the poor are reduced to drinking out of mud puddles, such as has already happened in places in South America.

Just wonder how much, such devices would cost, eh?

But then, the poor reduced to drinking from mud puddles.... wouldn't that be something if, because of this, they developed immunities that protect them from some future water-borne disease, that affects the rich, because they hadn't 'eaten mud'?!

Boy, the ultimate irony!

 

[Subduction Zone]

We might all be buying these devices once the corporations privatize all the water and the poor are reduced to drinking out of mud puddles, such as has already happened in places in South America.

The problem is that it takes a lot of energy to get just a little water. This is almost a year old idea. Here is a piece for Thunderf00t where he debunks based upon their own numbers and a bit of thermodynamics. In case anyone is wondering what makes him an authority he is a working research chemist (Phil Mason is his real name) with a YouTube hobby:

 

[Subduction Zone]

Just wonder how much, such devices would cost, eh?

But then, the poor reduced to drinking from mud puddles.... wouldn't that be something if, because of this, they developed immunities that protect them from some future water-borne disease, that affects the rich, because they hadn't 'eaten mud'?!

Boy, the ultimate irony!

At the heart of the device is a Peltier Dehumidifier. Like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Eurgeen-Semi...8-1-spons&keywords=dehumidifier+peltier&psc=1

 

[Tumah]

This is quite interesting!
Can you imagine if every house had this technology? Seems safe, too.

In field tests, device harvests water from desert air: System could provide drinking water even in extremely arid locations

This isn't a new idea.

Israeli Invention Creates Water Out of Thin Air

 

[Hockeycowboy]

This isn't a new idea.

Israeli Invention Creates Water Out of Thin Air

Interesting! Any idea on how much the portable units cost?

 

[Tumah]

Interesting! Any idea on how much the portable units cost?

Nope, but it looks like they're already on sale.
Home - Water Gen

 

[Jedster]

So we suck all of the moisture out of the air, wonder how that's going to affect the environment?

This ?

 

[Deeje]

@Hockeycowboy imagine what something like these could do for South Africa at the moment with Capetown running out of water.

 

[Jumi]

The problem is that it takes a lot of energy to get just a little water. This is almost a year old idea.

I think the idea of it is quite a bit older. If it were true or could be true, there would be no doubt that space agencies would be making efforts in them right now. Sadly it's just optimism blown off the charts... I think a few of the researchers are probably angry that their names have been associated with this.