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

• 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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      • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Well, if this idea is so glorious, why is none of the large array of water harvesting devices that pop up multiple times a year ever deployed at scale?

        Easy answer: because they are all marketing bullshit that doesn’t solve the actual problem and instead only exists to part investors from their cash.

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