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Potentially Solving Desert Water Shortages Using 20,000 Volts to Condense Fog (www.youtube.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There are ways of doing this passively that have been used for thousands of years already..

[–] kitb 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A fact he mentions and compares against.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's great, I never read the article I was being instinctively critical about capitalising ancient methods of free resources..

[–] kitb 5 points 2 days ago

A completely reasonable default response to this sort of thing, to be fair. This is just one of the few such things that aren't just "we've reinvented the standard dehumidifier for water collection purposes".