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You said it yourself, the Atacama is the driest desert on earth. I imagine that environment would be the most difficult to extract water from. Develop the tech
by tomc1985 9y ago
You said it yourself, the Atacama is the driest desert on earth. I imagine that environment would be the most difficult to extract water from.
Develop the tech in easier locales then, once the major details are worked out, target the outliers.
- dieg0 9y agoAir already has X amount of water, you cannot get more than X. It doesn't matter if X is very tiny like in deserts or very large like in the middle of the pacific ocean.
- tomc1985 9y agoPer cubic meter, sure, but there is a lot more of it than that to work with We build our space equipment the same way... arrange for/synthesize/simulate a close analogue of an environment for initial development and then move on to the real thing once the initial quirks are solved. I certainly don't know the science behind water extraction but I imagine an extremely dry locale would not be the best place to be performing all your validation tests. Maybe start with a kind-of-dry desert, or some other biome. Like Joshua Tree instead of Death Valley...