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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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"Self-Filling" Biking Bottle Pulls Water Out of Thin Air
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(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.