Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner — claimed to work in desert air with 20% humidity or lower, delivering off-grid ‘personalized water’
Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner — claimed to work in desert air with 20% humidity or lower, delivering off-grid ‘personalized water’
I wonder how that affects the environment where the water is taken from.
Bazzness on
Finally a job for uncle Owen.
PeskyAntagonist on
I swear this same thing is unveiled like every few years for the last 20 years
HAL9000_1208 on
My god… How many times can we sell dehumidifiers to gullible investors claiming that they can solve water shortages?
CharacterAstronaut14 on
And then all of a sudden Nestlé acquires the technology, and the nobel Prize winner retires from public life
Mysterious_Bit_5385 on
Saoudi Arabia might need that soon
doubled_pawns on
Sounds like a Fremen suit on Arrakis from Frank Herbert’s novel Dune.
Equivalent-Repair488 on
Has there been any papers or patents published?
I have seen desiccant/dehumidifiers touted as clean water extractors “out of thin desert air” over the years. None of them made commercial success or seen again.
Even if they were “disappeared” by like Nestle or some evil organisation. Research papers and patents and the science behind it never disappears. And if they refuse to file or publish the findings, maybe we should be skeptical the authenticity of the science of it.
Jaded-Currency-5680 on
that device has a name, its called a dehumidifier, calling it a device to make it cool is just sad, is this facebook post or something?
its not a new technology, its pretty common and there is nothing impressive about it
there is a hurdle of using dehumidifier more widely, its because it consumes a fuck ton of energy to achieve a small result, thus its very expensive and impractical to use widely
due to the basic law of physics, pulling moisture out from dry air is very energy intensive, no matter what method you use, OP should have paid some more attention in primary school science classes
FeinwerkSau on
But – would you not like, get distilled water mostly without any minerals? I’m not 100% sure, but i have a faint memory that drinking distilled water is not very good for your body…
Sure-Current-3267 on
There already exists a proven concept like this one
I laughed about the clickbait picture, because the lead says this:
»The system can function in air with 20% humidity or less. But these 1,000 liter a day machines are not small, at around shipping container size.«
goomyman on
I haven’t read the article yet but I’m going to call bullshit. I’ll read the article after this post and see if I’m wrong.
Extract 1000 liters at what size? Does it actually scale that big or “can scale that big”.
Is the water actually clean – /doubt.
How much energy does it use? Is it able to run off solar or does a huge solar array come with it.
How expensive is it? Like more prohibitively more expensive than just shipping in water. Because if you can ship in the freight sized filter thing you can ship in a freight of water.
Speaking of shipping in water. Is it capable of producing more water than it’s worth? How long until it needs new filters.
Basically this is a really post -where I’m saying that in no theoretical way is this practical. It might be cool tech – since it doesn’t appear to be a giant dehumidifier like the other scams but I’m going to call bs on practicality – which honestly if something is impractical (aka something else is better even if it’s paying a guy and a truck to deliver water) it’s a non starter even if cool.
Edit – ok I’m right. Cool material, at scale literally doesn’t exist. Says nothing about the water being clean. Nothing about cost or number of cycles.
Reads like a child science fair for adults – scientifically sound but real world impractical marketed towards some green energy save the world goal.
JaggedMetalOs on
The only interesting thing about this is how quickly everyone apparently forgets the last several times the same “invention” was paraded out before inevitably disappearing.
Lyndon_Boner_Johnson on
kunthapigulugulu on
Does it have ai in the cloud though?
MrFourhundredtwenty on
A Nobel Prize winner or a FiFA Nobel Prize winner?
TheRealGouki on
This is some dune technology.
Behemothslayer on
“Personalized water” Like water that has your name on it???
Loakattack on
Yeah the called it Airanos and it was invented by Helizabeth Olmes.
Potential-Bird-5826 on
As a stupid question and hoping for an actual answer.
If i bought an off the shelf dehumidifier, and ran it normally with the water collecting in the drip tray at the bottom, would it be safe to drink?
22 Comments
I predict a “suicide”.
I wonder how that affects the environment where the water is taken from.
Finally a job for uncle Owen.
I swear this same thing is unveiled like every few years for the last 20 years
My god… How many times can we sell dehumidifiers to gullible investors claiming that they can solve water shortages?
And then all of a sudden Nestlé acquires the technology, and the nobel Prize winner retires from public life
Saoudi Arabia might need that soon
Sounds like a Fremen suit on Arrakis from Frank Herbert’s novel Dune.
Has there been any papers or patents published?
I have seen desiccant/dehumidifiers touted as clean water extractors “out of thin desert air” over the years. None of them made commercial success or seen again.
Even if they were “disappeared” by like Nestle or some evil organisation. Research papers and patents and the science behind it never disappears. And if they refuse to file or publish the findings, maybe we should be skeptical the authenticity of the science of it.
that device has a name, its called a dehumidifier, calling it a device to make it cool is just sad, is this facebook post or something?
its not a new technology, its pretty common and there is nothing impressive about it
there is a hurdle of using dehumidifier more widely, its because it consumes a fuck ton of energy to achieve a small result, thus its very expensive and impractical to use widely
due to the basic law of physics, pulling moisture out from dry air is very energy intensive, no matter what method you use, OP should have paid some more attention in primary school science classes
But – would you not like, get distilled water mostly without any minerals? I’m not 100% sure, but i have a faint memory that drinking distilled water is not very good for your body…
There already exists a proven concept like this one
http://www.fogquest.org
I laughed about the clickbait picture, because the lead says this:
»The system can function in air with 20% humidity or less. But these 1,000 liter a day machines are not small, at around shipping container size.«
I haven’t read the article yet but I’m going to call bullshit. I’ll read the article after this post and see if I’m wrong.
Extract 1000 liters at what size? Does it actually scale that big or “can scale that big”.
Is the water actually clean – /doubt.
How much energy does it use? Is it able to run off solar or does a huge solar array come with it.
How expensive is it? Like more prohibitively more expensive than just shipping in water. Because if you can ship in the freight sized filter thing you can ship in a freight of water.
Speaking of shipping in water. Is it capable of producing more water than it’s worth? How long until it needs new filters.
Basically this is a really post -where I’m saying that in no theoretical way is this practical. It might be cool tech – since it doesn’t appear to be a giant dehumidifier like the other scams but I’m going to call bs on practicality – which honestly if something is impractical (aka something else is better even if it’s paying a guy and a truck to deliver water) it’s a non starter even if cool.
Edit – ok I’m right. Cool material, at scale literally doesn’t exist. Says nothing about the water being clean. Nothing about cost or number of cycles.
Reads like a child science fair for adults – scientifically sound but real world impractical marketed towards some green energy save the world goal.
The only interesting thing about this is how quickly everyone apparently forgets the last several times the same “invention” was paraded out before inevitably disappearing.
Does it have ai in the cloud though?
A Nobel Prize winner or a FiFA Nobel Prize winner?
This is some dune technology.
“Personalized water” Like water that has your name on it???
Yeah the called it Airanos and it was invented by Helizabeth Olmes.
As a stupid question and hoping for an actual answer.
If i bought an off the shelf dehumidifier, and ran it normally with the water collecting in the drip tray at the bottom, would it be safe to drink?