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And thus, you've got the rest of it to have material that can fall under copyright law.
But couldn't someone copy out the mere listing of ingredients anyway?
throwaway81523 2 hours ago [-]
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.
vasco 2 hours ago [-]
I mean we're talking about people who decided their life's work would be to run a recipe website so we already can't expect that much.
trick-or-treat 1 hours ago [-]
You don't know how many side projects they have. I had a recipe website at one time along with 50 other things.
jmyeet 2 hours ago [-]
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the__alchemist 6 hours ago [-]
Nearly 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
donkers 5 hours ago [-]
The design seems reasonable. It seems like a scaled down version of this MIT one that uses similar principles:
> Over this period, the device worked across a range of humidities, from 21 to 88 percent, and produced between 57 and 161.5 milliliters of drinking water per day. Even in the driest conditions, the device harvested more water than other passive and some actively powered designs.
so its making a shot of water ever couple days, provided its not too dry?
you need to scale way way up, not down
toast0 3 hours ago [-]
A shot is ~ 35 ml to 50 ml, so one to three shots a day. :p
aidenn0 1 hours ago [-]
1.5oz in the US, which is about 44mL
ssl-3 9 minutes ago [-]
That's about the average of 35mL and 50mL. ;)
tentacleuno 5 hours ago [-]
Many thanks for your link to the article, it was a very interesting read; fascinating to learn how glycerol interacts with lithium salts...
sciencejerk 3 hours ago [-]
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 water they collected were below the standard threshold for safe drinking water, and significantly below the levels produced by many other hydrogel-based designs.
So uh, how do they get the salt out of the nanostructure? This design seems amazing but it seems like many of these designs have issues with salts accumulating and clogging up parts thereby requiring some manual maintenance or replacement parts
murderfs 41 minutes ago [-]
The salt is there to be hygroscopic, they don't want the salt out. The structure is there to keep the salt in.
jojobas 3 hours ago [-]
Both devices handwave on how the cooling required to condense the water occurs.
aaron695 5 hours ago [-]
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throwaway81523 2 hours ago [-]
Here's one that uses exotic materials that the developer got the 2025 Nobel chemistry prize for:
This reminds me of Dune. Does this really work tho?
Ekaros 3 hours ago [-]
Most likely not. Hard part really is rejecting the heat involved in phase change of water from vapor to liquid. You have to effectively dump that energy somewhere and all the time you do not you don't get liquid water.'
It sounds easy, but eventually you can heat up whatever you use as heat sink and then you have to wait for that to cool.
trick-or-treat 1 hours ago [-]
When you kill a man do you get to take his water?
aspicytaco4me 3 hours ago [-]
I honestly can’t believe the article didn’t mention dune.
bigiain 2 hours ago [-]
So I assume Amazon will have all their warehouse workers forced to wear these, and collect all the captured water to feed into AI datacenter cooling systems?
johnnyApplePRNG 4 hours ago [-]
Incredible innovation.
Wouldn't want to be drinking whatever this produces in the GTA though lol
PLenz 6 hours ago [-]
Makes sense since we're speedrunning the other parts of the Butlerian jihad
EarlKing 6 hours ago [-]
I don't know about the rest of you, but if somebody spots Shai-hulud out in the Sahara I'm outta here.
kreelman 5 hours ago [-]
At the end of Dune.... Chani is heartbroken... Needing to get away...
Oh I'm a leavin' on a Shai-hulud
Don't know when I'll be back again..
AnimalMuppet 6 hours ago [-]
Out of here to where?
whynotmaybe 5 hours ago [-]
Outside of the environment?
EarlKing 3 hours ago [-]
The deep desert. As far from the pyons as the sands go.
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Loughla 5 hours ago [-]
Honestly, bring on Leto II. Fuck it.
erelong 4 hours ago [-]
I've heard of collecting water with tarps and assume this is like a vest form of that:
Collecting water with tarps is just strategic collection of condensation/dew. Clothing has the issue of often being warmer than ambient because people are warm blooded, so it's unlikely water would condense from the air(though it can condense on the inside from evaporated sweat).
keithnz 6 hours ago [-]
depending on actual conditions you are in, it could potentially double (or more) the time before you die of thirst if it was your only source of water.
brewdad 6 hours ago [-]
I do wonder about the tradeoff between excess perspiration due to wearing heavier materials versus the ability to collect water, especially on the days where replenishing fluids is most crucial.
keithnz 5 hours ago [-]
from what I can tell, you dont have to wear it?
throw678 4 hours ago [-]
MIT came up with a device that harvests water from air few years back. What happened to that project?
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karim79 4 hours ago [-]
Assuming it's an "all-weather" jacket I think it would be cool for it to spout out umbrellas when it starts raining, batman style, to catch rain water as well and drop it into pouches. Mp3 player would be great as well.
b3ing 6 hours ago [-]
I wonder if it has microplastics, but probably depends what kind of fabric was used
loloquwowndueo 7 hours ago [-]
My first thought was “yay a stillsuit” - but this grabs moisture from the air, not the wearer’s body. So no. No stillsuit yet.
Kurd 7 hours ago [-]
Lisan al-Gaib!
ashton314 4 hours ago [-]
But are you wearing it slip-shod, like the natives do?
sanex 7 hours ago [-]
Seconded. I wonder which would taste better though.
3eb7988a1663 7 hours ago [-]
Would you want it? I thought you were supposed to urinate and defecate in the suit so as to maximally retain moisture.
g-b-r 7 hours ago [-]
Just wear it in reverse ;)
A big step towards a stillsuit anyways ;)
NopIdoN 5 hours ago [-]
works in the rain
SadErn 7 hours ago [-]
Vaporware has never tasted so good or been so refreshing.
elgertam 5 hours ago [-]
Vaporwear*
ArchieScrivener 7 hours ago [-]
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niggischiggi 6 hours ago [-]
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jojobas 7 hours ago [-]
This sort of thing can't work as it would break basic laws of thermodynamics. Best case it's a dehumidifier with extra steps.
donkers 6 hours ago [-]
Why would it break the laws? Per the article it uses the heat from sunlight to do some of its work, it's not some kind of magic fabric.
jojobas 6 hours ago [-]
So a dehumidifier with extra steps.
Supermancho 6 hours ago [-]
"extra steps" meaning wearable dehumidifier. Are there other wearable dehumidifiers to produce drinking water? I don't think so.
A reductive assessment (to a specific feature) of a novel idea, does not make it less interesting.
vintermann 53 minutes ago [-]
Evaporation cools things, that's why we sweat. Condensation heats things. Sure, a wearable dehumidifier may be novel, but does it sound like a good idea to wear a dehumidifier in conditions where you might want to drink the water from one?
jojobas 5 hours ago [-]
You can wear silica gel since about 1918 - only needs some heat to get the water out and cold to condense it.
Then again, why would you want to wear your dehumidifier (ok ok water harvester)? Is it for excursions into damp areas, so that you can then return to your dry home to extract water?
Then, I believe everything in this video still applies.
https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html
And thus, you've got the rest of it to have material that can fall under copyright law.https://copyrightalliance.org/are-recipes-cookbooks-protecte... also goes into it.
Which category does this fall into?:
https://news.mit.edu/2025/window-sized-device-taps-air-safe-...
So my vote is for working as expected.
so its making a shot of water ever couple days, provided its not too dry?
you need to scale way way up, not down
So uh, how do they get the salt out of the nanostructure? This design seems amazing but it seems like many of these designs have issues with salts accumulating and clogging up parts thereby requiring some manual maintenance or replacement parts
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03875-w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGTRX6pZSns
It sounds easy, but eventually you can heat up whatever you use as heat sink and then you have to wait for that to cool.
Wouldn't want to be drinking whatever this produces in the GTA though lol
https://www.campingsurvival.com/blogs/camping-survival-blogs...
A big step towards a stillsuit anyways ;)
A reductive assessment (to a specific feature) of a novel idea, does not make it less interesting.
Then again, why would you want to wear your dehumidifier (ok ok water harvester)? Is it for excursions into damp areas, so that you can then return to your dry home to extract water?
Then, I believe everything in this video still applies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGTRX6pZSns