Posted on 05/10/2025 7:17:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
15 cubic millimeters? That is the size of a BB. You would lose that in a puff of wind.
Nice idea, but too small to be of any interest. Scale it up to a cubic foot. THEN, I’d pay some attention.
Be still, my heart. This device will save us all. I wonder who the Chinese stole it from?
just carry a house- sized block of this crap with you into the desert, and after dealing with the lithium— wth- then you’re good!
Scale it up to provide several gallons over night and then I’ll be interested.
And an added benefit is a little lithium to stabilize the moods of the people using this technology.
We’ve seen this movie before. Don’t invest your kids inheritance on this as a start up investment.
Is 30% humidity really arid?
Any way to get clean drinking water to the world is always a good plan.
I remember a 1200 baud modem. It was a start. A few years later we are using 2GB fiber connections.
These things take time.
I marvel at the large amounts of water my dehumidifier collects.
Cooling? Compressor based cooling? Peltier thermoelectric? Passive radiator with a fan? The first two can gather water without the balsa wood part.
OK, I reread the no electricity required in the headline, but does that apply to the whole system or just the balsa wood part?
Sounds like a possibility. But what are the environmental impacts of production and disposal?
I don’t believe that there’s a sufficient supply of balsa wood in the world to make this practical on a large scale.
It needs sunlight so it doesn’t do anything at night.
This would have helped Saul Goodman and Mike Ehrmentraut while they were walking through the New Mexico desert with that 7 million dollars.
There's always that.
“Its moisture absorption–release performance was stable across 10 consecutive cycles, with less than 12% decline in efficiency,”
so, what would be the decline in efficiency after 100 cycles?
scaling it up would be the point.
Should be added to your escape kit/lifeboat supplies: potable water will keep you alive.
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