May 252018
 

Thunderf00t  takes down yet another “WaterSeer,”  a device that claims to extract useful quantities of drinkable water from the air. This time it’s called “Zero Mass Water” and is simply a solar panel attached to a dehumidifier. It’s unclear to me why it has a *huge* panel (48×96 inches) with only a dinky PV array in the middle, rather than covering the whole thing. The problem, as with the “WaterSeer,” is simple: if you live in the desert, where water from the air would be *fantastic,* there’s virtually no humidity for the dehumidified to actually work with. if you live somewhere that’s humid, then you probably get a lot of rain… which is *already* free water from the air.

Thunderf00t also shows how it would be cheaper to simply truck water a thousand miles than to use these “ZeroMass Water” panels.

 

Now all someone needs to do it figure out how to integrate these solar panels & dehumidifiers into roadways… hmmm…

 Posted by at 9:17 pm