[HN Gopher] How to Harvest Moisture from the Atmosphere
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       How to Harvest Moisture from the Atmosphere
        
       Author : lxm
       Score  : 32 points
       Date   : 2024-03-21 21:57 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | tppiotrowski wrote:
       | This idea has been around for a while. This company [1] was doing
       | it a few years ago when I looked into it but there's definitely a
       | lot of improvements to the process mentioned in this article.
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       | [1] https://www.source.co/
        
       | BatFastard wrote:
       | https://archive.is/cwZuQ
        
       | 0xbadc0de5 wrote:
       | They're called dehumidifiers. This idea has been debunked more
       | times than I can count.
        
         | Aromasin wrote:
         | I live in a damp and dingy English cottage. I'm sure that the
         | moisture from my 3 dehumidifiers could quench the whole county
         | if distributed accordingly.
        
         | dartos wrote:
         | And yet, people with money keep throwing it at these ideas.
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         | Imo this is just an easy way to get grants from nonprofits
        
         | BobaFloutist wrote:
         | I _have_ in the past wondered about using small-scale
         | dehumidifiers /desalination as an outlet for peak solar
         | generation in, say, California, but water's probably still too
         | cheap to justify it.
        
       | insane_dreamer wrote:
       | Old news; solved long ago on Tatooine
        
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