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No more dropped bottles in feed zones!
Oh great, one more thing people will forget to recharge the batteries for.
“constant drop-flow of one drop of condensed water per minute.”
Hope you’re not thirsty
If you could hook it up to a dynamo could the pedaling power the device?
Yes, but you’ll be using more body water to power the machine than water the machine generates itself.
Clearly depends on temperature and humidity outside too.
why don’t we put this on cars instead
Because you have like…20 cup holders and a trunk?
The other open question is if you’re idling in traffic ingesting all that nasty sub-micron scale pollution, how much of that crap are you drawing with into the water when you condense?
If you want to measure that I’m willing to sacrifice my window sills. The amount of oily dust the collect when it’s windy is depressing. Yeay living downtown!
Who needs batteries and fans if you’re going >30km/h, and in the summer, it’s usually damn humid here. But no, I don’t have any intention of going for one.
You still need batteries at least because you need a way of bringing down the surface temperature of your condenser to below the dew point of the ambient air.
And the only practical way to do this is with some sort of coolant cycle, which for the purposes of doing it in a bike unit basically meants Peltier coolers: and that’s exactly what the design here does.
Sure, on a very humid day your dew point is relatively close to your ambient temperature, but you still need to do work to extract the water. And the lower power requirements for humid air extraction are offset by higher hydration requirements in humid weather. Your extractor needs to pull out more water.
For this system to really work it needs to pull out one liter of water per hour regularly, while carrying enough electricity to do it for 4 hours and the whole system needs to weigh less than 3 liters of water, and it needs to be cheap enough that people won’t entirely balk at the price. And it needs to guarantee the water meets drinking water standards.
Yeah, good luck.
why don’t we put these on planes
Relative humidity is almost 0% beyond 30,000 feet.
Why don’t we put these on trains?
I’m starting to think these would be a good idea on submarines
relative humidity = 100%
I give up.
That might be an MCT first
Did somebody just break Jason???
These are dark and trying times.
why dont cars run on water and magnets yet. water = hydrogen, magnets = magnets
this is 2014 for fucks sake this isnt even hard people are you even trying
also 1337, I am leaving the forum now
[quote=DavidF]why dont cars run on water and magnets yet. water = hydrogen, magnets = magnets
this is 2014 for fucks sake this isnt even hard people are you even trying[/quote]
Big Oil keeps stopping my research!