by the__alchemist
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- Nearly all passive water-from-air devices described in articles are based on false claims. Peltier-based, desiccant/absorption/adsorption based, etc. All end up not working, or not existing. This has been common for ~10 years.
Which category does this fall into?:
- Fraud
- Incompetence / misunderstanding that wasn't cleared up prior to publishing an article
- Neither; this works as expected
by phyzix5761
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- I appreciate this style of writing. Straight to the point. No 12 paragraphs about someone's grandmother falling in love in Italy with a plastic bag.
- Not specifically about drinking water or jackets, but I've often wondered why air-conditioning condensate is plumbed into the sewer instead of someplace useful. An A/C is a water-from-air device, and they run in much of the year in most homes in the southern US.
The typical design that I've seen plumbs the main condensate drain into the sewer, and usually has an overflow that dumps somewhere harmless if the main line clogs. (like out of the ceiling over the bathtub or out of an exterior wall in a visible location, so you can see it and fix it)
The few times I've seen the overflow, it's been quite a fair amount of water. Certainly enough to help with garden irrigation, if nothing else.
- This reminds me of Dune. Does this really work tho?
- This will sell well on Arrakis
- So I assume Amazon will have all their warehouse workers forced to wear these, and collect all the captured water to feed into AI datacenter cooling systems?
by advisedwang
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- I really enjoy that the outbound links go through a redirect on nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com (as well as awstrack.me). Did the article author just copy the links they were sent by email without even opening them?
- Makes sense since we're speedrunning the other parts of the Butlerian jihad
- Fremen stillsuits have been in use for ages. This jacket is a copycat, but at least it means Frank Herbert has not been forgotten.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stillsuit
by warumdarum
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- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UMtqy9_NbYg&pp=0gcJCUACo7VqN5t...
by johnnyApplePRNG
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- Incredible innovation.
Wouldn't want to be drinking whatever this produces in the GTA though lol
by TrnsltLife
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- First someone declared the Butlerian Jihad. Now they've invented Fremen still suits. I want personal energy shields next.
- depending on actual conditions you are in, it could potentially double (or more) the time before you die of thirst if it was your only source of water.
- Anyone remember the self filling water bottle? Her you are:
www.fontus.at
Of course it did not work. And never hit the market
- MIT came up with a device that harvests water from air few years back. What happened to that project?
- So the opposite of Marty's self-drying jacket in Back to the Future Part II?
- I've heard of collecting water with tarps and assume this is like a vest form of that:
https://www.campingsurvival.com/blogs/camping-survival-blogs...
- I wonder if it has microplastics, but probably depends what kind of fabric was used
- Where is my dune stillsuit ?
- works in the rain
- i guess this wouldnt work on arrakis
- Assuming it's an "all-weather" jacket I think it would be cool for it to spout out umbrellas when it starts raining, batman style, to catch rain water as well and drop it into pouches. Mp3 player would be great as well.
by loloquwowndueo
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- My first thought was “yay a stillsuit” - but this grabs moisture from the air, not the wearer’s body. So no. No stillsuit yet.
- Vaporware has never tasted so good or been so refreshing.
by ArchieScrivener
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by niggischiggi
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- This sort of thing can't work as it would break basic laws of thermodynamics. Best case it's a dehumidifier with extra steps.
- How much water was used to make 1 jacket?
Like a life cycle analysis.
I understand it is about having access to water in dry places when you really need it, but still at some point these efforts forgot about something.
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