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Biking cross-country through rough terrain may mean that access to fresh, drinkable water may be limited. But what if there was a device that could "pull" moisture from the air and transform it into drinking water? That's the idea behind Austrian designer Kristof Retezár's Fontus, a "self-filling" water bottle that can make water out of thin air.
The solar-powered bike accessory uses a Peltier Element to generate water. It's essentially a cooler with two chambers that facilitates condensation, and takes in air as the bike moves, which is then slowed and cooled down by barriers that allows it to condense and form water, which is channelled and collected in the bottle.
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You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @06:49AM
What, no Dune comments yet? Frank Herbert definitely was ahead of his time.
So, how about doing this big style to counter some of the california draught?
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @07:01AM
California draught? Mmmm beeeeeeer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @07:07AM
s/draught/drought/
Sorry for that mistake from a guy for whom english is the 4th language (5th, but let's discount that forgotten latin...).
And thanks for pointing it out wittily, I learned something there, laughing.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday July 31 2015, @07:08AM
So, how about doing this big style to counter some of the california draught?
People are taking draughts in California? No wonder they do not have enough water, like they were experiencing a drought. The Sierra Nevada Torpedo IPA is not bad, though. As for the tech in the FA, isn't this just a sort of localized "rain"? Sounds like a good idea, as long as it does not beggar those downwind. You know, cause them to have draughts.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Friday July 31 2015, @07:13AM
You just beat me to it, that's all.
I makes sense to pump cleaned up and purified water from sewage treatment plants into the local aquifer, or simply to pump it back to the local water filtration plant. It's drinkable after all. Some people don't like the idea of drinking filtered and purified piss and shit water but that's what we drink already. We just speed up the recycling process.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @07:44AM
I think the precondition to extracting moisture out of the air is that the air contains moisture to begin with.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @08:11AM
the precondition to extracting moisture out of the air is that the air contains moisture to begin with.
Well, that just goes without drinking, doesn't it! But air almost always contains some moisture, unless it truly is Arrakis. But then you have Worms and spice, so it's all good.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Friday July 31 2015, @08:43AM
Use Air Wells [google.com].
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 1) by xav on Friday July 31 2015, @08:28AM
I bet that the air surrounding bikers contains moisture... but I would not want to drink it personally.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @08:41AM
Yes, which is why you don't drink the collected water from the Air Conditioner. It contains so many deadly germs that it should be disposed of along with toilet water.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday July 31 2015, @10:35AM
I did think of Dune, myself, but more about stillsuits. Only thing is, being wrapped in a rubber suit on a hot day seems like a great way to instantly die of heatstroke.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Friday July 31 2015, @02:30PM
I was thinking Starwars.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @05:16PM
I was thinking Pink Panther.