Comment on MIT researchers have unveiled a portable, window‑sized device dubbed the atmospheric water harvesting window (AWHW) that can extract clean drinking water directly from air, even in death valley

• BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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  • protist@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you’re concerned with bacterial growth in the condensate of a dehumidifier, all you need to do is boil it

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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      • protist@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Y’all, we’re talking about condensate from a device specifically designed to capture water for drinking. We’re not talking about drinking the water dripping from your AC. Ensuring this water is drinkable is remarkably simple

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