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A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air

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Re: A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air

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Post by murderfs »

sciencejerk wrote: post #42
tentacleuno wrote: post #29

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Many thanks for your link to the article, it was a very interesting read; fascinating to learn how glycerol interacts with lithium salts...

The team’s new design significantly limits salt leakage. Within the hydrogel itself, they included an extra ingredient: glycerol, a liquid compound that naturally stabilizes salt, keeping it within the gel rather than letting it crystallize and leak out with the water. The hydrogel itself has a microstructure that lacks nanoscale pores, which further prevents salt from escaping the material. The salt levels in the wa…

The salt is there to be hygroscopic, they don't want the salt out. The structure is there to keep the salt in.

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Post by amelius »

shagie wrote: post #50
karim79 wrote: post #39

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You're probably talking about cooking/recipe blogs? I need those 12 paragraphs and all the ads to get to the recipe. It's dopamine.

Recipes themselves can't be copyrighted. https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html How do I protect my recipe? A mere listing of ingredients is not protected under copyright law. However, where a recipe or formula is accompanied by substantial literary expression in the form of an explanation or directions, or when there is a collection of recipes as in a cookbook, there may be a basis for copyright protect…

Cooks and mathematicians are not allowed to make money. For everybody else we have patents.

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Post by kakacik »

Loughla wrote: post #28
EarlKing wrote: post #16

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I don't know about the rest of you, but if somebody spots Shai-hulud out in the Sahara I'm outta here.

Honestly, bring on Leto II. Fuck it.

Yeah apparently we need to get our ass kicked seriously to get our shit together to make it further and not die choking in our tiny blue spot.

Maybe not for 3500 years, but look what world WWII brought after it ended. We need that millennia-spanning perspective.

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Post by thih9 »

throwaway81523 wrote: post #52
jstanley wrote: post #51

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But couldn't someone copy out the mere listing of ingredients anyway?

I had heard it's more about SEO. Put some filler on the page to make the article looking enough for the search engine to think it's intereting.

> intereting

Typo, “interesting”; “interneting” also works.

Re: A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air

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Post by gambiting »

whynotmaybe wrote: post #25
AnimalMuppet wrote: post #17

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Out of here to where ?

Outside of the environment?

Senator Collins: It’s not in an environment. It’s been towed beyond the environment.

Interviewer: But it must be somewhere… Well what’s out there?

Senator Collins: Nothing’s out there!

Interviewer: Well there must be something out there.

Senator Collins: There is nothing out there - all there is is sea, and birds, and fish.

Interviewer: And?

Senator Collins: And 20,000 tons of crude oil.

Interviewer: And what else?

Senator Collins: And fire

Re: A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air

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Post by gambiting »

3eb7988a1663 wrote: post #10
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #3

My first thought was “yay a stillsuit” - but this grabs moisture from the air, not the wearer’s body. So no. No stillsuit yet.

Would you want it? I thought you were supposed to urinate and defecate in the suit so as to maximally retain moisture.

I mean, astronauts already do that - their urine and feaces are processed, water extracted and purified and used for drinking again.
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