George Lucas already invented this.
Posted on 04/13/2017 1:42:49 PM PDT by NoLibZone
You can’t squeeze blood from a stone, but wringing water from the desert sky is now possible, thanks to a new spongelike device that uses sunlight to suck water vapor from air, even in low humidity. The device can produce nearly 3 liters of water per day, and researchers say future versions will be even better. That means homes in the driest parts of the world could soon have a solar-powered appliance capable of delivering all the water they need, offering relief to billions of people.
To find an all-purpose solution, researchers led by Omar Yaghi, a chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, turned to a family of crystalline powders called metal organic frameworks, or MOFs. Yaghi developed the first MOFs—porous crystals that form continuous 3D networks—more than 20 years ago. The networks assemble in a Tinkertoy-like fashion from metal atoms that act as the hubs and sticklike organic compounds that link the hubs together. By choosing different metals and organics, chemists can dial in the properties of each MOF, controlling what gases bind to them, and how strongly they hold on.
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My thoughts are to use this to reduce C02.
MOFs can pull any gas form the atmosphere.
CO2 in the atmosphere is a good thing. Makes the plants grow. We should all be doing our part to fight starvation by leaving our SUVs running an extra 10 minutes every day when we get home from work. Food for our little green buddies!
George Lucas already invented this.
So did I, and I agree. I don't think it will cut the mustard.
Next up, a working lightsaber
Use the right sort of soaps and detergents and you can water your plants with the “gray water.” I’ve been attempting to learn all I can not out of a desire for conservation but to extend practical time in an RV with no hookups, i.e. wild camping or boondocking. “Navy showers” can be pleasant once you perfect the art of turning it on and off without getting temperature variations, and you’d be surprised how much water a regular shower takes versus intermittent flow. There are very decent incinerating toilets now, too, using whatever fuel available, from electric to propane to diesel, just sterile ash to remove and dispose of periodically.
My goal is not to skip days. Happens sometimes.
That sharing invalidates the study. “:^)
ooops, my bad.
My search for a water-bearing tree came up with power-producing tree too!
I meant to add, this is just another progressive perpetual motion machine.
Cool.
Heh. I made a joke.
You will not be fully hydrated at a tenth of a gallon. If your lips are dry and skin inelastic you are dehydrated by a lot.
We have large oceans. If a concerted effort at desalination was done there would be no water worries
A dear friend sent me information a couple months ago. I don’t know if it was this one, or a knock off. She wanted to buy a few and bring them to the Philippines. It sounded too good to be true, so I started checking on it. A libtard perpetual motion machine, would be a good way to describe it.
The device depends upon condensation to harvest water from air. Water is a liquid at room temperatures, so condensation works. Carbon dioxide is a vapor until about -80 Celsius, so it wouldn’t work except in a few areas of Antarctica in Antarctic winter.
“Put in a million of them, suck all the moisture out of the air and kill everything that was already there depending on that moisture.”
And THERE’S the environmentalist attack vector, right there.
OMG! This small-time unit will proliferate into ten million and — AAAAIIIIEEEEE!! DOOOM!
Same argument they use for NOT taking any more drinking water from the San Joaquin delta.
DAMN those resource-needy humans!
We’re all supposed to starve or die of thirst in deference to everything else orbiting the Sun.
Anyhow, we already have inexpensive devices for gathering carbon dioxide from the air - they are called plants. LOL
Yes, that was my motivation too, the R.V. environment.
I’m always keeping my eye open for a good idea. I’m not sure how I came up with it, what the spark was, but I determined a pesticide sprayer can coupled with a kitchen sink hand held sprayer would make for a great shower type experience.
I purchased a very nice stainless steel can for about $40.00. (They have plastic versions too. I have one. It works great too.) It holds about 2 to 2.5 gallons. I heat the water to just below hot. I pour it in with the leftover from the day before. It’s a pump sprayer, and the hose attachment is about four feet long.
I pump up the pressure so the sprayer is ready.
I have three facial towels (about 12”x12” type) and a large typical towel you’d use for drying off.
I lightly wet the first facial towel. I scrub my face well. I get my ears and neck too. I wring it out and place it on the side of the tub to dry.
I wet the second facial towel pretty good and place a bar of soap in the middle of it. I rub up a great presence of soap on the facial towel. Then I wash my upper chest torseau, and lower back as best I can. I wash my shoulders, upper back, and arms. Then I wash my legs. At this point I’ve gotten everything but the underarms, privates and feet.
I fould the towel in quarters and do my underarms. I do one underarm and fold the towel opposite so it will be clean and do the other underarm. Then turn the towel inside out and repeat. Then I wring the towel out good. Leave it on the side of the tub to air dry.
At this point you’d think to rinse, but I don’t. I now take my sprayer, rinse my face, then wet my hair. I use one application of shampoo on my hair. It lathers up good. When I’m done, I collect the shampoo off my hair and cast it on my feet. This helps prepare them for washing later. Now I rinse.
As I rinse my hair, I rinse other parts by default. Once I’ve done the hair to satisfaction, I rinse my upper back, then shoulders down to my finger-tips. If you go slow over your shoulder, you’re actually getting your underarms too. I generally spray them again anyway. I don’t do the underside of the arms though. They get rinsed sufficiently from the top. Then I rinse my legs but try to avoid the feet.
Now it’s hand and bar soap time. Privates, feet, privates... The shampoo on the feet adds to the soap and really helps out doing a good job on the feet.
At this point I rinse off the last areas. Done.
All this takes is just over a gallon of water, 1.25 tops if you work at it.
Each day I put 3000/ml of water in the can. I always have some left over. If I want to clean the tub, I splurge. I generally have enough to do that and still not run out.
You can use too much water and run out, but just being aware of that will keep you from doing it. You have to be thinking when you do it, and not waste water.
It’s a game for me. I got used to doing it, and at the end, I’m just as clean as I ever was, perhaps more. It takes about the same time.
1. Towel, only use to wash face neck ears...
2. Towel, use to wash body
3. Towel, use to dry forehead and face at certain points.
Day two, rotate towels. 1 becomes 2. 2 is placed in dirty clothes. 3 becomes 1. New towel enters the rotation at number 3. Thus you use one new towel per day.
That’s pretty detailed (perhaps too far for some readers), but I wanted to put it out there what you can do if a situation arises, or like you say, you’re out in the R.V. and you want your supplies to last.
Take care.
BTW: I’ve purchased a water filtration system and lights. Recycled water for plants is not problem.
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