So the opposite of Marty's self-drying jacket in Back to the Future Part II ?
Or an early version of the Fremen suits from Dune.
A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air
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Re: A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air
#72This reminds me of Dune. Does this really work tho?
If the collecting fabric was on the inside, you'd literally have a stillsuit. I can imagine there would be complications with it getting clogged by oils from the skin.
Plus, you know, completely ruining thermoregulation by preventing heat loss through evaporation.
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#73Nearly all passive water-from-air devices described in articles are based on false claims. Peltier-based, desiccant/absorption/adsorption based, etc. All end up not working, or not existing. This has been common for ~10 years. Which category does this fall into?: - Fraud - Incompetence / misunderstanding that wasn't cleared up prior to publishing an article - Neither; this works as expected
It is a dessicant dehumidifier, useless for the same reason as this MIT/Berkley thing from 9 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGTRX6pZSns
I'm glad someone else pointed it out, I would be skeptical of these claims. It will always be constrained by thermodynamics and local humidity. And it seems to only absorb the vapor at night and then release water in sunlight. Even if it produces what they claim, it's still barely enough to supplant the daily needs, and the jacket is probably not worth saving half liter of water.
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#74This will sell well on Arrakis
Re: A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air
#75Nearly all passive water-from-air devices described in articles are based on false claims. Peltier-based, desiccant/absorption/adsorption based, etc. All end up not working, or not existing. This has been common for ~10 years. Which category does this fall into?: - Fraud - Incompetence / misunderstanding that wasn't cleared up prior to publishing an article - Neither; this works as expected
Yea, usually the next step is starting a Kickstarter campaign and then rug-pulling.
Re: A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air
#76Where is my dune stillsuit ?
Re: A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
No, it's not just recipes. A lot of particularly American long-form journalism is writteh this way. So I just put this in Gemini: > write the first 6 paragraphs of an imaginary news article that starts with a one paragraph hook and then has 4 paragraphs of a preamble story that has nothing to do with the premise. The last paragraph should somehow bring it back tangentially to the original point and this is what it ca…
This is good, however that first sentence needs to be removed, it's too factual and orients the reader too much.
Re: A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air
#78i guess this wouldnt work on arrakis
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#79i guess this wouldnt work on arrakis
Sure it would, if it can capture the humidity evaporated from skin and breath.
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#80This will sell well on Arrakis
It’s far behind the Fremen made still suit. They will laugh at it.