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Here's their summary blog post: https://x.company/blog/posts/sharing-project-h2e-with-the-world/ https://x.company/blog/posts/sharing-project-h2e-with-the-wo..
by icegreentea2 5y ago
Here's their summary blog post:
https://x.company/blog/posts/sharing-project-h2e-with-the-world/ https://x.company/blog/posts/sharing-project-h2e-with-the-wo...
Allow me to snip a few quotes: "After three years of work, the team felt confident they could build a device that would produce water for $.10 per liter; however, it would have taken significant development work and iteration to prove feasibility at $.01 per liter. Additionally, the next phase of work for the project looked to be heavily focused on hardware integration and mass production expertise — not X’s sweet spot."
And:
"Given these factors, it became clear that X wasn’t best suited to take the work forward, and one of the best ways X could have an impact now on the problem of access to safe drinking water was to share what we’ve learned."
I have no idea what the prior state of the art of modelling viable areas for harvesting was (I presume this is probably where X made the largest contribution). As the blogpost identifies... X is not really the best group to tinker with large scale, low cost manufacturing prototyping and scale up.
- dekhn 5y agothis is just standard boilerplate at X which really means "the team and/or the executive sponsoring the project got bored and/or realized things required more professional work, and/or the idea wasn't really that great in the first place and the exterior world realized that"