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Related: About this forumWater 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
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Isn't this a dehumidifier? Perhaps I'm missing something here...I read the article and ...
SWBTATTReg
Oct 2018
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SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)1. Isn't this a dehumidifier? Perhaps I'm missing something here...I read the article and ...
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
eppur_se_muova
(36,269 posts)5. Thanks for the link. nt
OnlinePoker
(5,722 posts)3. So, heating up wood, I would assume combustion is involved?
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
a droid that speaks their binary language...