Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Innerworld@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/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-percent-humidity-or-lower-delivering-off-grid-personalized-water

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/59925291

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.

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69420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Finally, I can achieve my dreams of becoming a moisture farmer.

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- mushroommunk@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  Hope you enjoy a whiny nephew
  
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  - SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    I swear to god if that kid brings up the academy one more time, just kill me
    
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  - LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨35⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    What
    
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- DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  Peaceful living as a smoldering skeleton
  
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Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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Bruh.

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- thatsTheCatch@lemmy.nz ⁨57⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  This is likely not the Generative AI, LLM-slop type of AI you’re thinking of.
  
  I hate generative AI. But other forms of AI and machine learning have been used for much longer and haven’t facilitated the building of ecologically harmful datacenters.
  
  For example, AlphaFold, which is an AI program that can predict how proteins fold and is an incredibly useful tool.
  
  I expect that the use of AI here would be similar: something trained for a specific purpose, not just generic generative AI tech like ChatGPT
  
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- ghost@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  Reading that felt like my brain was trying to chew glue
  
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  - Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
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    That’s what it said.
    
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Gullible@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

shipping container size

That’s far smaller than I expected. I also don’t imagine it will be cheap. If they manage to make it less than $100,000 then I’ll be baffled. Less than $500,000 and I’ll be excited for the possibilities in my lifetime.

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Eccowave@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
Lisan al-Gaib!

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HowAbt2day@futurology.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
That water was in its way to somewhere, though. What is that other area gonna look like now that this device intercepts the water?

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- SweatyFireBalls@lemmy.world ⁨59⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  Sounds like that other area needs to pull up on those bootstraps and make a water machine for its needs then.
  
  This comment is brought to you by the sigma water machine, buy yours today and lock your grindset on hydration!
  
  (Hopefully obvious but /s)
  
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  - HowAbt2day@futurology.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    Are you on the Temu or the Amazon so that I can get some good boot straps and choke myself to ejaculation?
    
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AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
sorry but isn’t that just a good dehumidifier? Is there something new?

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- pageflight@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  And how much power does it use?
  
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  - Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    This thing works self-contained and off grid - using materials that have huge surfaces to condense the water. It is mentioned that there are powered versions too, but the principle itself does not need extra power, the Sun drives the condensation.
    
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tal@lemmy.today ⁨36⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
When I looked at condensers in the past, they weren’t incredibly energy-efficient. I suspect that it’s cheaper in the long run to do desalination and build a pipeline.

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ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

Yaghi’s mechanism can do this without a power source. It uses the wind and air for water input, then the sun to drive condensation and evaporative action.

Really interesting. This could totally transform many places on Earth.

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