Making water

[Marble]

Water is a rare resource for many countries.
Will it ever be possible to make water?
I don't mean desalting of seawater, but production of drinking water.

 

[jarofthoughts]

Water is a rare resource for many countries.
Will it ever be possible to make water?
I don't mean desalting of seawater, but production of drinking water.

Sure you can.
Burn hydrogen and oxygen.
The 'waste' product is water.

Scientists Discover New Way To Make Water

 

[rsd]

They actually have a machine the sits on top of a flatbed trailer (tractor-trailer type) and suck something out of the thin air and produces large amounts of water. I know this because I founded a world-wide disaster relief organization years ago and kept up on these things. OK, I just now looked for info. on this but must be in one of my old computers. Anyhow, you might Google it. But I did see this written up and thought how amazing.

 

[Valjean]

Lots of desert animals metabolize food into water. They never need to drink.

 

[Marble]

Lots of desert animals metabolize food into water. They never need to drink.

Unfortunatelly this will be of little help for farmers in Africa who suffer from hunger because their yield withered.

 

[Revoltingest]

They actually have a machine the sits on top of a flatbed trailer (tractor-trailer type) and suck something out of the thin air and produces large amounts of water. I know this because I founded a world-wide disaster relief organization years ago and kept up on these things. OK, I just now looked for info. on this but must be in one of my old computers. Anyhow, you might Google it. But I did see this written up and thought how amazing.

It is a refrigeration unit which condenses water vapor.
It must be an expensive thing to run...unless there's some convenient power source (eg, Sun) to run a Stirling engine.