Zero Mass' solar panels turn air into drinking water 

i know right ? i pay $150 every 3 months for electricity and I use my big dehumidifer every single day . that's 3 litres per day here in the EU. and even after 2 years it'll still be cheaper than this thin foil these guys are selling for 2,5k without installation fees and what not. lmao!

lochiffresix six.. hello friend, can you provide info about your equipment, I really thankfully if you show me that info...

www.amazon.com/Portable-Dehumidifier-hOmeLabs-Basements-Allergens/dp/B073VBWKJZ/ref=sr_1_3?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1527299898&sr=1-3&keywords=dehumidifier

It's a dehumidifier...and it's total useless when you use it in dry air (watch the Thunderf00t video about it, he gives you some facts). 4k $ for 2 Dehumidifier (watch on their homepage, you have to buy a minimum of 2) which is working poor because of the solarpanels...only rich ppl are stupid enough to buy that shait and only rich ppl can afford that shait...

no power needed is a good idea for disaster zones, but how much would it cost to add a pedal powered battery to a dehumidifier? I'm betting a LOT cheaper than this & far more versatile & space efficient too! (some NGO's are using pedal powered devices as mobile phone chargers in third world countries, giving individuals the chance to run a business where they pedal power charge people's phones for them, so that tech does work & then there's others where they have separate solar panels that can be used for various devices from phone charging to led lights to fan powered stoves. One I've seen with a solar powered stove & usb port & led lights all built in & much smaller than this is retailing for $150. Not sure if it has enough power to run a dehumidifier, but I'm sure it could easily be scaled up & dehumidifier put onto a usb port attachment, MUCH cheaper than this junk!)

Gamex996 a big 'solar powered' dehumidifier for people who don't like free tap water or even bottled water lol

Gamex996 a solar powered one. Which makes all the differance

Gamex996 kinda but it doesn't seem to use a condenser ie more efficient

On there technical specifications sheet on there website it says "The water vapor is collected as the airflow passes through a condenser and the resulting liquid water flows into the onboard reservoir"

imconconc678 Tap water is not free everywhere.

Bro, solar panel is the only thing that's expensive.

Maybe $200 for the solar panel

Also, dehumidifier does bot produces drinking water, go on and google, u will get it.

yes you can drink it but you might want to run it through a $50 filter first, that's the same as what this machine does. the biggest issue is that they will not get much water if there isn't a lot of humidity in the air, In the places that this is most needed is the same places that it wont work good, this isn't a new idea by the way, other company's have tried the same thing in the past but found that it is not practical.

By Verge: 'Friesen says that on average, one Source device can harvest 5 liters of water per day. Because of the device depends on solar power, he says, that number doesn't vary too drastically between dry and wet climates - solar radiation is stronger in dry places where there are fewer water molecules in the air to absorb it, and water vapor is more prevalent in wet places where solar radiation is less intense.' Basically dude, idea is what comes first. If u r in middle of a remote area where there is no electricity then this idea is good and efficient no matter how much humidity is there. If we discourage someone with his idea, he/she might not be able to further research on it. Go on and try making this by yourself then u will realise how difficult it is.

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Beat me to it lad

I was thinking the exact same thing, someone plz send him this ;)

No need. He have already showed that all "water out of thin air" solutions are scams.

TheShadow the video is 100% BS. Probably to get subsides

Zaydan Naufal Well that’s all fine and dandy but I don’t think she was even alive during Indonesia’s kingdom era since it’s been a Republic for quite some time now. It was probably just a mistake hahaha

Thunderf00t got them lol

Ben Lewis Israel even used desalination from sea water too

Cost, you’ve got to make huge desalination plants and then pipe it to a desert. Not cheap

JoneTech you do realize that making enough water for everyone with these things is going to be far more expenisve than building a water treatment facility.

Sea water desalination is an expensive energy hog and it also damages the environment by making the water more salty.

TheAnial8r and building these solar things is an extremely inefficient use of money and if working "as planned" will damage the environment by taking huge amounts of water out of the air.

largest 250 letes per day graohe cersin 375 liters per day all sokar watt 100 per hiys ih one orr per day

Agreed

on a cloudless sun day

My really bad maths makes it. Over a 15 year life 5475 days $4500 / 5475 = $0.82 for 5 ltrs or $0.164 per ltr if you got 5lts that is. But desalinated water is around $.81 per cubic meter (1000ltrs) I will leave it at that incase I'm making myself look stupid with the maths.

I think they said each panel is 5L and it's $4500 for two panels. Pretty expensive but technology finds ways to improve efficiency and reduce cost. This could bring safe drinking water to millions who don't have access.

MILLIONS OF PEOPLE DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO WATER NOT BECAUSE THERE'S NO WATER; BUT BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO MONEY. MONEY IS THE BARRRIER. IF YOU THINK SPENDING 4500 DOLLARS ON SOLAR PANELS TO PRODUCE 5L OF WATER A DAY IS FESEABLE THEN YOU'RE DELUDED

Thats the real price of water we waste everyday! Only when such resources becomes so scare its value kicks in

Was about to comment the same. Might as well like your comment instead. Hehe

Cody Wisenbaker damn! I thought I was first with the Star Wars related comment! Lol. The equipment was called ‘vaporators, and the people who made a living using them were called Moisture Farmers

PNathan 5400USD = 22,090 liters or 5,835 gallons of distilled drinking water. How much do you spend on distilled bottle water?

@@nodinitiative Sarcasm not detected...

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Jason Gooden just get a dehumidifier or a/c run on solar panels. Don’t forget to filter and boil. 1/10 the price.

Why him? did he predict this or something?

#thunderf00t

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6:48 here is your answer.

desalination of sea water would be FAR FAR more efficient

The reason you never see or hear of these products again is because they aren't actually good products and the technology isn't revolutionary whatsoever. For example this product is just a dehumidifier hooked up to a solar panel and something to add minerals back into the water - nothing revolutionary whatsoever, we've had that technology for years and years. Any engineer with half a brain could knock something like that together without much effort. The resulting product is always going to be a terrible way to get water, because it's just so inefficient. You could literally fill a truck with water and drive it wherever you want the water and that would be a cheaper way to get water. Products like this are essentially a scam - they want you to buy it not because it's a great way to get drinking water, but because they say it's "green" and will help poor people without access to clean water when neither is really true. You know what is more green? Pumping water from a fresh water source. It's much less waste materials, much lower energy requirements and no need to add minerals into the water because they are already there.

That and they are blocking out sun with chemtrails

Ravinder Sembi ?nope

It will alter Ph levels and mineralize the water so this should be safe assuming those functions never fail.

YibTube well, pH level and adding minerals doesn't necessarily clean the water from any harmful substances?!😂

YibTube that's not the same as filtering....

yeah what prevents other form of vapor (not water) from condensing in the panel and mixing with the water

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For that company i recommend to make a version without a solar panel, as many that type of people that might want to get this system already has a good solar electric system on their roofs.

It's to seal the cracks in the road.

Nope this what happens when they tar the road too thin or not enough which causes cracks as it dry's to quickly. Then they try fixing it later by poring tar in the cracks so you end up with these patterns, other words who ever was contracted to do the road work was crap & to rip it up start again was too costly so this quick fix was the result. Oh regarding these solar humidifier condensers they do work but it's reliant of atmosphere water vapor percentage, low water percentage takes longer & also depends on seasons also.

Or maybe someone likes to do crazy deformed doughnuts on the road

Colleen Forrest just get a dehumidifier or a/c run on solar panels. Don’t forget to filter and boil. 1/10 the price.

Agreed but private industry, free enterprise and product development only happen from healthy profit margins. Eventually the cost per liter will come down but only with Free Hand economics. Uncle Joe style government prevents innovation. Proven again and again.

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It's not, the tech has been around for ages, this is just a new take on an old idea. There's so many caveats that come with these types of machines though, i.e, humidity, air temp etc.

It’s just like a mini cloud

It is. Water treatment is far far more efficient for making drinkable water.

Well, I did a quick thermodynamics sanity check, and here's what I found... At 25deg C, the enthalpy of evaporation of water is 2442 kJ/kg. 1kg water = 1L. This is the thermal energy you must extract from water vapor (Latent Heat) to get it to condense into a liquid. There is no magic way around lowering this energy requirement. Your cooling system will likely only be 50% efficient at best. So now you are up to about 4884 kJ/L energy input. A 300W solar panel will produce 4884 kJ of energy in 1.628x10^4 s = 4.5 hours of full sun. So you produce best-case about 1L of water every 4.5 hours. You might be able to get 2L a day if you use a heliostat and sunlight, air temp, and humidity conditions are favorable.

Ray Rodriguez Everyone used to say solar panels were a scam, now they're cost effective and viable. Lots of pseudo intellectuals out there.

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@@avi8r66 he did, I feel blessed

no one drinks just bottled water and no one drinking large amount of bottle water pays a dollar per litre. you could easily get bottled water for 5cents a litre delivered

"no one drinks just bottled water" - oh yes they do. 5 cents a litre - examples? That just makes things even worse for them then, as it will take 50 years to pay it off at that prices, unless I am missing something major.....

maybe in third world countries like US where they have rusty pips; it makes sense to only drink bottled water. just look at costco if you want to find cheap water. buy in bulk and buy big. sometiems they have discountrs where you can get 5cents per litre. www.sulabhinternational.org/indian-village-gets-worlds-cheapest-bottled-water/ www.webstaurantstore.com/crystal-geyser-1-gallon-natural-spring-water-case/103WATER61.html bit over 6 cents per litre.

nepali hercules I'm not in the USA and I know plenty of people that only drink bottled water, even with perfectly fine tap water. Very few people drink from the tap anymore. Also where I live you ain't getting 5c/L bottled water, nowhere near that cheap.

you must live in a shitty country if you cant drink tap water

He responded, in true form.

ryanhaart here in the Philippines we have water shortages from March-May (our summer or dry season) and methods like these would greatly help leverage extreme humidity into water we need.

Yea it Goes to show us were Getting closer every day, to help solve the water Problems in the world !!! And Man were running out of time, we Need all these wonderful inventions, so keep up the Great work Thank you Big Time !!!!

Not really much to expensive and less effective. it would be better an efficient to build a bigger electricity powered condenser

Thamindu kavinda the cost for manufacturing solar panel is still expensive but there are so many advantages when comparing with power plant.

I suggest you watch some of Thunderfoots videos many other companies have tried to extract water from thin air and they have all been largely unsuccessful, at least in terms of it being economically viable and getting much water at all..., its best just to recycle and preserve the water we have like the second guy in the video said.

Rocky Do totally agree with you.

running this big-arse humidifier takes more power than that tiny solar panel can produce.

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#Thunderf00t

TheShadow 5 litres... did you watch the video?

Thanks, I missed the info.

TheShadow I thought it was 5ltr maximum..

In the best possible way under perfect conditions.. so it's unlikely to ever reach 5 liters.

5L, so long as it's raining... Oh and so long as you've purchased, for the low low price of only $79.99, the reservoir Advanced Water Uptake Collection device, which is an add-on, which is a kiddie pool.

GREEK GOD it’s a dehumidifier or a/c run on solar panels

For $4500 you can move to a sensible place.

except that the 5 l was the max for the system not the Arizona numbers. Zero mass is a fitting name.

Irval Firestar 4 litres a day really i drink around 2.5

so if you have a family of 4, you'd need 4 times that.

They said it will make less water in dryer places, its just a dehumidifier with a solar panel, In a really dry area they would be lucky if it made a few teaspoons of water

John Sunlight Had one for more than a year and since then it has produced 100% of our water for drinking, coffeemaker, and ice machine.

Thelonious McCoy just get a dehumidifier or a/c run on solar panels. Don’t forget to filter and boil. 1/10 the price.

The price already came down. You can buy a dehumidifier with a 70L capacity for less than $200.

And solar panels, a filter and connect it yourself.

No as long as we wont do anything stupid. But with all the homes with this it will rain less because of less water vapor. It probably would get drier though

daSiew yes solar panels heat up the atmosphere and this clean water tech will cause less rain. No one wants to talk about the bad things about clean tech truth is there isn't any perfect solution. The old Chinese philosophy is the only way to go to find a balance between the 2.

All the air in the atmosphere 5,140 trillion tons of it, combined with all the water in the world, 8,753 billion cubic miles of it, pretty much guarantees these panels wouldn't affect anything. If it did, then the ultimate effect of every surface we turned from moisture absorbing to a non absorbing surface we would have destroyed the water cycle a long time ago. 4/5 ths of the earth is covered in water, mostly polluted, but there to evaporate

You start selling this to every home and suddently you cut natural water circulation by 50%.

I don't think it'll just be affecting rainfall...possibly more complex weather patterns...

we have drought because of less moisture. the reason why the sahara desert is a desert is because there's no moisture, so not a lot of rainfall.

Unless it never offsets its cost.

Salimufari it’s a dehumidifier or a/c run on solar panels. Don’t forget to filter and boil.

beautiful and smart :D

Marius Snow yup :V

I'm sure that's the takeaway Goode wanted everyone to have, creep

You'll be glad to know that she's got an identical twin that she used to work with on her old videos

lol

No, because we need machines like this to do it. The machine creates water from air.

epSos.de , they might just laugh. Thermodynamics isn't a new concept they could see through the marketing hokum.

I think they'd call us insane because this isn't more widely is use

They knew how to do this more then 100 years ago

epSos.de this is literally a dehumidifier...... It cost a shitton of energy to do this. This is not a good idea

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