Posted on 05/10/2025 7:17:29 AM PDT by Red Badger
Supposedly, it absorbs moisture at night and the heat of sunlight then releases the water during the day.
lithium chloride is unsafe. I wouldn’t want to drink water from some thing using it.
There are small windmills that they use in Africa that generate electricity & pulls moisture out of the air via condensation.
As I write this, it is 96F and 11% humidity in Tucson, Az.
Story is pie-in-the-sky, at best.
Does distilled water have any metal ions in it? No why? Because the process of turning water into HiP vapor leaves metals and all other ions behind. Some volatile organics that have vapor pressures lower than H2O can volatilize lithium salts are not one of them. This is a distillation process once the water is captured by a alkaline salt nothing more nothing less. You could even put a hydrophobic membrane between the evaporator and the condenser to ensure only H2O vapor and nothing else crosses that membrane it has nanometer sized pores that only vapor molecules can pass metals, VOC, virus,bacteria cannot pass it. This is exactly how you get analytically zero ppm.distilled water so pure you couldn’t drink it as it would leech minerals from your teeth and bones you have to add some ppm in metals calcium and magnesium if you want to keep your teeth and bones. So no you won’t ever get lithium in any form in the distilled product side. This is a well known process they just immobilized the salt in a porous cellulose material that’s all that is new and it’s genius.
Lithium chloride will pull water out of single digit humidity levels in it’s salt form, go to a chemical supply store ask for some lithium chloride. Dump it in a glass dish and set it in the shade where you are in not much time you will have a bowl of brine liquid bank on it. Even in the Sahara you could do this and still end up with a bowl of brine. The trick is how to get the water out it’s too concentrate for reverse osmosis, you can calcinate the salt with heat and condense the vapors but you need hundreds of degrees C it can be done but your really have to want that water. This takes the incredible water absorbing properties of lithium chloride and makes it use less than 50C in heat to drive the water out. If you are willing to take low rates even 10% or user still will eventually saturate LiCl.
Use it to make Still Suits.🤔
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