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I ran across an article about a unit that produces up to 7 gallons of fresh drinking water from the air. Too good to be true? I don't know but I found it to be a rather interesting yet pricey alternative to drinking water from wells, catchment, county or having bottled brought in.
I have to think the unit would also work to dehumidify interior spaces.
Anyway I wanted to share with you guys and wondered if anyone else had heard of this type of thing and if people had thoughts about it. I always learn so much from these discussions. ;-)
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If you bought a $200 dehumidifier and captured the water it produced, you would have the same thing. However, it wouldn't taste very good....
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LOL... yeah I imagine it would not.
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There was a business in Pahoa a few years ago which sold such machines. They drew water from the humidity and it was drinkable.
They did not last too long though... free county taps versus a several hundred dollar machine.
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Alternate Source used to carry them. I don't know if they still do.
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My gut reaction is that this is merely a dehumidifier, probably with some kind of water filter attached, and as such it is nothing new. It would require energy and could not compete with catchment in terms of gallons per kWh. If you happened to be somewhere that it never rained, and if you were air conditioning anyway, it might be worth it. If you were air conditioning anyway then take the condensate from the air handler and filter it and don't bother buying this machine. Also, there is no way the manufacturer can guaranty 7 gallons a day under all conditions. If you were in the desert or inside an already conditioned room, the air would be dry already and the water output would be low.
Most window or thru the wall air conditioners pipe the condensate from the cold heat absorption side over to the warm heat rejection side and evaporate it. I'm sure the cooling effect of the evaporation boosts the efficiency of the air conditioner but it still seems like a waste to throw fresh water away. In most cases water is too cheap to justify any inconvenience in capturing this condensate.
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It is indeed a humidifier with filters.
We have used a similar 'water machine' -- it takes humidity from the air, filters it with charcoal and then with UV, delivers it to two separate taps, both hot enough for tea and ice cold for drinking.
Truly delicious water -- there is a difference.
Downside is it is a very big draw on the kwH.
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Hard-core filtration and sterilization would be a must due to the almost certain contamination of the water with anything that was in the air and the stagnant nature of the condensate source.
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Seems like this would perhaps become problematic over the long haul (many months to years) because of bone thinning and so on, problems resulting from losing minerals and salts from the body. Same sort of thing which I've been warned happens in Alaska if one melts snow, long term, for drinking water rather than using ground water. Ground water is loaded with minerals in most places, melted snow just H2O. Same reason in Hawaii people use county taps for drinking water and catchment water for washing dishes, doing laundry, etc -yes? (Asking, because I do not know).
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