Water condensers are *incredibly* energy inefficient because they’re basically just dehumidifiers with a filtration system attached.
A 75 watt dehumidifier produces around 1L of water per 24 hours in ideal (80%) humidity conditions.
Under emergency conditions, it’s recommend to have 4L of water on hand per person per day. This is the bare minimum.
For a 4 person household, that’s 16 x 75 watt dehumidifiers (or 1 x 1,200 watt dehumidifier), which would need to run for 24 hours and would consume 28,000 watt hours of electricity.
The average 4 person American household consumes around 30,000 watt hours of electricity per day. This system would effectively double your home’s electric bill, just to provide the bare minimum amount of water needed to survive.
To offset this with solar panels, which are 15% efficient, at best, and provide 150 watts per square meter, and receive around 3-5 hours of direct sunlight per day (depending on cloud cover and where you live)…. You’d need somewhere between 40 to 64 square meters of panels. Per house. Just for water generation.
Which only works when it’s humid.
And sunny.
This invention is cool, but it can’t beat the laws of physics.
Also note the classic hallmarks of an invention scam: news article video with no actual news company logo on the bottom, “retired” military veteran, demanding “investment”, “donation” or some other financial contribution to his life-saving device with no information on cost, how/where it’s manufactured, or discussion about how this “life saving” invention should actually be free or open source.
we really need to re-introduce the term “publicity stunt” back into our vocabulary. too many people are getting continually duped by blatant marketing ploys bc fundamentally they don’t see celebrities as….greedy millionaires cashing in on media trends to make money
hmmm i see what u mean, but entertain this idea with me….the misuse of the term ‘publicity stunt’ could potentially put an end to tiktok’s popularity because the kids on that app would start to see themselves as 'posers’ the way teens did in the '00s
NO UR ACTUALLY COMPLETELY AND OBJECTIVELY CORRECT MB
nobody on this site is ever ever EVER going to top running a blog dedicated entirely to posting cute pics of sweet old dogs in a shelter for a year and gradually becoming one of the most recognized blogs on the website, then without warning dropping “i just want to get dicked down again =/” with 0 explanation and abandoning the blog. not deleting it, not explaining anything, just leaving the whole thing as a monument. fucking flawless posting. literally the best of all time.
Don’t forget the absolute cherry on top that was reaching out to the actual dog shelter to tell them their tumblr account got hacked, only for them to say, “We’ve never had a tumblr account”
I guess one thing we can all take comfort in knowing is that if Jessie is with Stacy, and Scottie doesn’t know that Fiona and Jessie do it in his van every Sunday, and Scottie wishes he has Jessie’s girl, Stacy’s mom has still got it going on.
I still think about this and it was probably better when I wrote it XD
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
