BombOmOm@lemmy.world 8 months ago
These are called dehumidifiers and you should not drink the water that comes out of them.
The condensed water is pure, yes. But dehumidifiers almost instantly become a breeding ground for all kinds of nasty shit. Nasty shit that is now in your ‘pure’ water.
The condensed water is pure, yes
“Pure” is not a good thing when talking about water. Your body relies on minerals dissolved in dr- nking water. Also, water is a power solvent and if it is t already saturated with minerals it will absorb calcium right out of your bones
Read the article. No electricity required. Uses outside air. Not really a “dehumidifier” unless you want to play strange pedantics. Just like a water filter, you probably wouldn’t suck on the filter element
No electricity required.
Just means it produces even less water.
Uses outside air.
Will breed even nastier shit in the water.
You know absolutely nothing about what makes water drinkable or how we as a society have already solved this problem
There are plenty ways to purify water once it’s been obtained
Absolutely. And that is the problem you actually need to solve in the places lacking potable water. They generally have water, it just isn’t potable.
If you’re concerned with bacterial growth in the condensate of a dehumidifier, all you need to do is boil it
There’s such a thing as botulism ; so - once the toxin causing it has formed, it doesn’t matter that you kill the bacteria that produced it with boiling the water. The toxin itself survives much harsher conditions.
I think it’s not the only danger which you haven’t considered here.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Really?
The waterseeer was an outright scam that never would have worked because physics, yet collecting millions in funding. And that wasn’t the first on either
This one is no difference, it’s a scam.