Calm down. From the article: "the glass beads contain only 0.05 percent water." It is much drier than Sahara sand where soil moisture can reach 1%. Dune's sce

Calm down. From the article: "the glass beads contain only 0.05 percent water." It is much drier than Sahara sand where soil moisture can reach 1%. Dune's scenario would be a piece of cake compared to what you would need to do to feed a colony off of this water. I suspect that energy-wise it would be cheaper to import water from Earth and recycle like crazy.