https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fontus-the-self-filling-water-bottles#/
A magnificent website. This bloke has done very well for himself. Raised $350k for a brilliant invention.
Christ on a crutch, I’m in the wrong game.
>This device was designed to capture the moisture contented in the air
So it screens out the frustrated water, jolly good.
sibeen said:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fontus-the-self-filling-water-bottles#/A magnificent website. This bloke has done very well for himself. Raised $350k for a brilliant invention.
Christ on a crutch, I’m in the wrong game.
hmm.
>>It is explicitly pointed out that the products which serve as Perks are in the development phase. It cannot be excluded that during the development phase technical, economical or other circumstances arise which may result in (i) a delay of the delivery of the Perk or (ii) the production and delivery of the Perk in a different form as regards functionality and/or design or (iii) even non-production of the Perk. In the latter case there will be no Perk delivered to the Contributor. Contributions will not be refunded. By making a Contribution the Contributors explicitly acknowledge the risks associated with the occurrence of one of the aforementioned events.<<
Plus $75 delivery does not fill me with a great deal of confidence. There are plants and animals that do a similar thing of extracting water from the air, but in these situations you usually have a mist, so copious amounts of moisture is assured. Seems to be asking a lot to produce much water from such a small collector. So I’m out.
PermeateFree said:
>>It is explicitly pointed out that the products which serve as Perks are in the development phase. It cannot be excluded that during the development phase technical, economical or other circumstances arise which may result in (i) a delay of the delivery of the Perk or (ii) the production and delivery of the Perk in a different form as regards functionality and/or design or (iii) even non-production of the Perk. In the latter case there will be no Perk delivered to the Contributor. Contributions will not be refunded. By making a Contribution the Contributors explicitly acknowledge the risks associated with the occurrence of one of the aforementioned events.<<Plus $75 delivery does not fill me with a great deal of confidence. There are plants and animals that do a similar thing of extracting water from the air, but in these situations you usually have a mist, so copious amounts of moisture is assured. Seems to be asking a lot to produce much water from such a small collector. So I’m out.
The stillsuit the Fremen used in Dune seems the way to go in dry environs. I also liked their dew collectors.
roughbarked said:
The stillsuit the Fremen used in Dune seems the way to go in dry environs. I also liked their dew collectors.
The Freemen still-suits was made to recycle every bit of moisture exuded by
the body which under normal circumstances, would be lost into the atmosphere,
The dew collectors worked on day/night temperature differentiation neither of these
principles seem to apply in this “Self-Filling” technology seeking investment infusion.
Looks like it cant actually work as claimed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhnoSREmWVY
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not a new tech.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_water_generator
For those not following the bouncing ball…it is a scam. Either that or the bloke developing it cannot do some simple calculations.
sibeen said:
For those not following the bouncing ball it’s a scam…
Now you tell me, thanks a lot.
roughbarked said:
The stillsuit the Fremen used in Dune seems the way to go in dry environs. I also liked their dew collectors.
Air conditioners and refrigerators already collect lots of water from the air, but the electricity required for the collection is rather a lot, so is the cost. People generally don’t drink this water because of fears of contamination – it’s nowhere near as clean as rainwater, I’d expect contamination levels of the order of 20 to 200 times as high as in rainwater.
A water collection system similar to the Fontus one appeared on “Pimp My Ride”. This appeared in Season 5, made about ten years ago.