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That’s far smaller than I expected. I also don’t imagine it will be cheap. If they manage to make it less than $100,000 then I’ll be baffled. Less than $500,000 and I’ll be excited for the possibilities in my lifetime.
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I mean, a little. It’s far easier to sell someone on less than half a million than on more than half a million.
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Yaghi’s mechanism can do this without a power source. It uses the wind and air for water input, then the sun to drive condensation and evaporative action.
Really interesting. This could totally transform many places on Earth.
Doesn't SoCal sometimes have negative humidity? 20% seems pretty high to say it works in the desert.
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When I looked at condensers in the past, they weren't incredibly energy-efficient. I suspect that it's cheaper in the long run to do desalination and build a pipeline to wherever inland you want freshwater, unless you have very limited-in-scale need.
This (seemingly) solves some issues in places like Africa where warlords block or destroy delivery systems to remote villages. Also fixes disaster recovery where pipes are destroyed or water systems are contaminated