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Does anyone have any details about their actual technical implementation? I'm sure it is interesting. I imagine it doesn't look too similar to a Tatooine moist

Does anyone have any details about their actual technical implementation? I'm sure it is interesting. I imagine it doesn't look too similar to a Tatooine moisture farm.

azernik 8y ago
It looks like a construction-site power generator - big ol' metal cube. http://www.skysource.org/products/ http://www.skysource.org/products/ Technical implementation is claimed to be 'adiabatic distillation' - not sure exactly what that means.
- explorigin 8y ago
  It means that it uses refrigeration to make it rain (maintain a dewpoint temperature) in a small chamber instead of just grabbing the condensation dripping off the refrigeration coils.
corodra 8y ago
Just google “water from thin air”. This has been done quite often the past 15 years. It’s an overpriced dehumidifier that is working outdoors. 1. They’re in Hawaii. It’s a little humid there. So... yea. Dehumidifiers will collect quite a bit of water in a water abundant area. 2. The places that need clean water typically have low humidity as well. To pull water from air, there needs to be water in it. Think of this as all those folks that claim they can run their car on water as a fuel. The thing they fail to mention was they were using a battery to split out the hydrogen from the water to use that as fuel. Which is not more efficient than just using the straight up battery. This is a publicity stunt scam. A real shame too. That money would have been better spent on education or better water infrastructure in places of need.
- JackFr 8y ago
  > They’re in Hawaii. So what you're saying is that they're efficient on an island miles from the the rainiest spot on the planet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Waialeale#Climate_and_Rainfall_Statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Waialeale#Climate_and_Ra...
  - corodra 8y ago
    You’d figure they would test something like this for efficiency in the desert. Just to be practical.
- aliswe 8y ago
  https://m.gulfnews.com/news/uae/weather/humidity-in-uae-reaches-100-hotter-days-to-follow-1.2265830 https://m.gulfnews.com/news/uae/weather/humidity-in-uae-reac...
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Does anyone have any details about their actual technical implementation? I'm sure it is interesting. I imagine it doesn't look too similar to a Tatooine moisture farm.

azernik 8y ago

It looks like a construction-site power generator - big ol' metal cube. http://www.skysource.org/products/ http://www.skysource.org/products/ Technical implementation is claimed to be 'adiabatic distillation' - not sure exactly what that means.

explorigin 8y ago
It means that it uses refrigeration to make it rain (maintain a dewpoint temperature) in a small chamber instead of just grabbing the condensation dripping off the refrigeration coils.

corodra 8y ago

Just google “water from thin air”. This has been done quite often the past 15 years. It’s an overpriced dehumidifier that is working outdoors. 1. They’re in Hawaii. It’s a little humid there. So... yea. Dehumidifiers will collect quite a bit of water in a water abundant area. 2. The places that need clean water typically have low humidity as well. To pull water from air, there needs to be water in it. Think of this as all those folks that claim they can run their car on water as a fuel. The thing they fail to mention was they were using a battery to split out the hydrogen from the water to use that as fuel. Which is not more efficient than just using the straight up battery. This is a publicity stunt scam. A real shame too. That money would have been better spent on education or better water infrastructure in places of need.

JackFr 8y ago
> They’re in Hawaii. So what you're saying is that they're efficient on an island miles from the the rainiest spot on the planet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Waialeale#Climate_and_Rainfall_Statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Waialeale#Climate_and_Ra...
- corodra 8y ago
  You’d figure they would test something like this for efficiency in the desert. Just to be practical.
aliswe 8y ago
https://m.gulfnews.com/news/uae/weather/humidity-in-uae-reaches-100-hotter-days-to-follow-1.2265830 https://m.gulfnews.com/news/uae/weather/humidity-in-uae-reac...

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