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’
www.tomshardware.com
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.

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.

  • jam12705@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    The article explains that the system doesn’t use power or any type of refrigerant, instead it uses a new type of material with large surface areas in a small package to capture/condense the water out of the air while utlizing wind and the sun to help accomplish its goal.

    I would agree that up until now the only viable technology was a dehumidifier which takes great amounts of fossil fuel energy, but this isn’t the case here.