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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

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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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