Posted on 08/05/2021 1:35:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Spanish company has devised a system to extract drinking water from thin air to supply arid regions where people are in desperate need.
"The goal is to help people," said Enrique Veiga, the 82-year-old engineer who invented the machine during a harsh drought in southern Spain in the 1990s. "The goal is to get to places like refugee camps that don't have drinking water."
The devices made by his company, Aquaer, are already delivering clean, safe water to communities in Namibia and a Lebanese refugee camp.
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They must be former IRS agents.
I think its called a dehumidifier. And it works when its humid. It does not work where there is no water. And by the way, there are germs in the air too.
Cool, evaporators like in Star Wars!
The machines use electricity
There’s water everywhere in our atmosphere... Always.
Solar stills using ponchos worked in humid areas in the Army, but it was super slow…
Wonder how much more they could get from “thick” air.
Energy in, water out:
https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-scientists-generate-water-from-air-even-in-the-desert/
This one sucks the water out of the desert soil, not the air, but is very low tech:
https://www.desertusa.com/desert-people/water-solar-still.html
It would work great here in humid Florida. But then we have all the water we could ever need.
How bout go somewhere that has water.
No! Don’t do that! They’ll all be here!!!!!😩
/sarc
I dont think that would work in the Colorado winters. Too dry.
/sarc
However, they have to get vaccinated first.
Every A/C does this as a side effect.
Just like any air conditioner. All you have to do is drop the temperature of a surface below the dew point. Only someone as ignorant as a journalist would think this is news.
Come to Florida. You don’t need no fancy machine, just leave your glass outside for a bit.
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