'Self-filling water bottle' goes BANKRUPT!!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ย. 2018
- Okay, I gotta admit, I danced a little jig!
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• Climate chamber tests ...
It really does fill me with despair though just how often this idea comes up. In reality we've understood the thermodynamics of this for over 100 years, and machines to get water from the air will always be hugely more expensive than other methods of getting water. Hell even reverse osmosis is about 100 times cheaper than running a dehumidifier to get water!
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There is NO WAY this could have failed due to practicality.
It HAS to be sabotage of this world changing innovative technology by BIG WATER!
big water = the ocean
or maybe coca cola
I figured out fusion with a household vacuum and fridge magnets....only to get sabotaged by the illuminati and that goddamn toothfairy.
Big Water was a song in Land Before Time Five. I saw that movie so many times as a child.
You mean Rain?
Why don't you just stay on your own channel, hater. Don't make us graph you on the Alternative Influencers Network! #PoesLaw
No they’re not! They’re just testing their new self filling bank account
they're* not - they're* just testing
The wonders of offshore bank accounts.
Made in Switzerland.
its 'their' not they're dumbass
Fixed comment: "No they aren't! They're just testing their new self filling bank account!"
No, I think the boat scenario is realistic. Anyone dumb enough to go out to sea without a water supply is absolutely dumb enough to buy a fontus.
Nonsense...plenty of water in the sea...problem solved...:)
StoicVampire Pig Yeah, it’ll do everyone a favor and clean up the human gene pool while they’re at it :D
ocean water is dirty, the fish are shitting and pissing in it!
Instead of water from the air, maybe they should have come up with a water filter that can turn even piss into drinking water. More affordable water treatment and/or desalination is how we'd really solve most of the water shortages.
@@InfernosReaper if good mythical morning is to be believed a simple charcoal filter can make urine drinkable.
The staples of a kickscammer:
1) CGi models of product
2) Cheesy music playing in the background
3) Fox "reported" on it
4) Claims to have reinvented the wheel
You can easily substitute CNN for Fox.
5) Cheap appeals to emotion
7) Footage of poor people in third world countries who would greatly benefit from the imaginary super expensive product they selling
Also, it has to mention that it could save the world in whatever way. Either with global warming, or in this case, giving drinking water to people.
local fox news is always a shitty waste of time, i think time magazine, Huffpo, and CNN are better examples imo
“He might be an environmentally conscious power boat owner” is one of the funniest counter points ever.
I come back to that part to get a good laugh 😂😂😂
These scams don't go "bankrupt"; they just pack up, take the ill gotten gains and move on to the next scam.
Well, I'm just glad THIS scam went bankrupt, and I hope the people who lost on it managed to learn a little lesson from it.
AKA Kickstarter
김재광Jae-kwang Kim What lesson? I'm just gonna spend all my money on the next pseudo scientific trend.
I'm joking. But people are actually gonna do that, and then cry when they get ripped off again.
I guess we know how they paid for that boat in the video.
@LocalToast Are we watching the same video? The fuck?
Now the creators of fontus will need to design a de-humiliator
This comment needs way more likes 🤣
Excellent
I would give 21 likes(1 for every phalange I have) if possible, and if I wasn't joking.
How about tears?
Deathpool Wilson, why do you even need so many phalluses
Well, that's the stuff that happens when art/design students think they're engineers.
@glyn hodges Yeah, how would one eliminate such obvious scams?
Art students are the dumbest, most talentless hacks I've ever met. I'm not an art student and I've made better canvas paintings than the shitty ones displayed at my college.
@@notgray88 well in order to be an arts student you need to suck at everything else so that's not really a head scratcher. I mean you can be really passionate about art and study it but who is really...
@@charlesgauthier8287 idk if music is art though but I wouldn't know really. Regardless, my point is still valid much like yours.
@@OneRichMofo "idk if music is art"
Do you live under a rock?
I have a self filling water bottle, I left it outside for a day with the lid open and it replenished itself completely, I haven't tested it in America, but it works here in the UK where it never stops pissing it down !
Same in the Netherlands too, I put some plants outside and they drowned 🤦♂️
Never trust design students, always ask in the science corner, otherwise you'll make a fool out of yourself.
Greetings from Austria, homeland of Fontus.
Its now worse than before as Austria was known as the homeland of Hitler , now of Fontus :/
Actually Fontus was first envisioned in Mein Kampf.
Wir müssen die fontus ausrotten!
Typish Österreicher ;3
Scheiß Wiener, gell?
I was just about to run out of procrastination material until Thunderf00t saved the day
😂😂😂😂😂😂..
Hahaha
😀
"Only for illustrative purposes" Yep, true words of a design/art major.
How so?
@@mareksicinski3726 because it’s only art/design, if you made it irl nothing would work. Difference between drawing a built house and building a house from an art piece
Works perfectly if you attach a nuclear plant (sold separately).
you could get sooooo much drinking water from those huge cooling towers!
@@gabriellocasilio3814 Hhmmm...yes! Hot water vapour!
@@darksidegryphon5393 with extra heavy mineral. hmm......
@@kuojames782 All part of a healthy breakfast.
@Michael 😂
Hey Fontus guys! Just remove all electronics from it and direct people to cry into the bottle whenever they think back on how much they paid for this. And there you have it, a self-filling water bottle!
joemck85 crying will fill the bottle faster than before too!
I can fill it up even faster from the tap
The water would be salty 😂😂😂
Arkadyuti Bera, The investor is salty too, so saltwater might be a good match. Or they could also invest in one of those boat water desalination machines.
Attach it to a perpetually outraged professional crybully SJW and you have water for life!
They certainly had a self filling bank account tho.
Del Well done
Hahahahahaha! That's fer sure!
Well Done! Here's your self fulfilling grandiose trophy of Meaningless NOTHING!🏆🥇💣💥💨
the 5 dollar Chinese version will prolly somehow work better too... marginally because they'll just throw a normal dehumidifier in it, meanwhile the Fontus crew will run off and make another false advertising campaign
@@UNSCPILOT I'm in the wrong business of being broke....
Well..they have their marketing skills together...^^
lol, Du einfach hier.
I love the expression: "an environmentally conscious power boat owner". This must be tongue in cheek, no?
Just ask the Sea Shepherds: they bought that diesel fuelled power boat. Then crashed it into a whaling ship as a protest, iirc.
Congrats you invented a miniature, inefficient dehumidifier. Which, you didn't even deliver for the money you collected.
Congrats you just commented exactly what's being said over and over again in the video.
I'm working on a water-downloader app. It basically rearranges the ones and zeroes floating on the Wifis into Hydrogen and Oxigen atoms. You just have to shake your phone to mix the atoms into H2O and the water comes out of your device.
Pomponivs Archibald make one for downloading ram
How's the app going and what kind of devices does it work with. I'm ok with it not working with my device cause it's a 1st generation iPad.
Lol just realized that you could be lying/being sarcastic cause I noticed that you spelling oxygen wrong and that's kinda suspicious
@@achannel2774 no shit
There is already a poo-uploader integrated in every iphone. Just try and shit on it...
Shake the device and the water will collect on your hand (sweat)😂😂😂
I’m reminded of a sketch from In Living Color where a con man tried to sell a spring as an exercise device. His words were “I know what you’re saying, that just looks like a regular old spring. But it can’t be a spring, springs don’t cost this much.”
Idk why I'm only getting recommended this now, but what a fascinating train wreck this was...
Self-filling bottle? Useless! What we really need is a self-flipping bottle.
*yes*
you all have read it wrong; its self-fulfilling bogus
@@arposkraft3616 self-harm bottle
cringe
BINGO!!
A nearly 30 minute “told you so.”
It's why we're here.
It’s to tasty
The thinking man's leafy
He deserves it
i still watch them completely though
I conclude that bankruptcy was a _self-fulfilling prophecy_ for Fontus
"I just finished a machine that cures cancer!"
fontus:" but can it make water out of air?"
"no ... why ... no!"
fontus:"yeah, didn't think so"
“But you can’t too”
Fontus: 😅
How dumb and ignorant are the people mentioning that their special dehumidifiers help people living in "dry" and "arid" regions? The words they're using to describe the environment are literally describing the humidity. Since when was there a climate that was described as arid but also has consistent 90%+ humidity? Did these people forget how the water cycle work?
Scott Maday lol I know... how they managed to convince so many investors is completely beyond me.
You’ve heard of the expression “more money than sense” Well I guess thats the market they tapped into.
lmao places like dubai
Lmao breh they're going to stop global warming with these things.
They didn't have mentors nor Lamborghinis
@@leowalton8436 ,it can get extremely humid in Dubai.
Imagine how many safe wells etc. you can make with 300k in countries that dont have water. ..
Roughly 30-40 wells
Water Wells For Africa says around 8k a well. Makes you sick doesn't it?
One of the few comments I didn't laugh at......because it's actually quite sad.
Next to worthless in a dry desert. Literally opposite of ideal location.
a well is never worthless , you just have to make it deeper , that's why a well in africa cost more than a well in europe for exemple , have to dig far deeper .
I bet he has 90 percent of the donated funds in an un numbered account.
"You know what a good sign of an unbox therapy video is? My unkept facial hair, a couch way too low to the ground, and me just sitting the camera on the ground so it can film straight up inbetween my legs."
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The $240K wasn't wasted, it was used for boat hire and to produce all those flashy ads.
Kiyoshi Kirishima Well he Might also have bought himself a Nice car, or a house.
But for reall, how does someone waste that Much money? It had to be a scam. Nobody is that terrible with money..
I still can’t believe so many people fell for this.
GreenAppelPie somethings just sound to good to be true.
It's not that difficult to fall for it, if you see what science is capable of. Just look at the stuff E. Musk is pulling off. Compare this to a water bottle that fills up with the use of solar energy and water-vapour in the air.
I'm not a scientist and if I would not have watched the video of Thunderfoot, I could've fallen for it as well.
Surely, nobody will fool you 😂 Maybe you have a link to the calculations you've made to debunk this?
there are flat earthers... nuff said :D
Tomas Viane please. it makes you look stupid. You are scientifically illiterate. Please do remove the comment, for your own good.
Do you think people will fall for my kickstarter t.co/cFWF9gr8hh?amp=1 it's stupid and pointless but it's completely transparent and honest
Put an insufficient photovoltaic panel on a swamp cooler and, boom: Solar Freakin' Air Conditioning.
Surely you meant Solar Freakin' Legion-Aire Conditioning. :)
"Condensation"
"Comes out of nowhere"
ANGRI
Check out the CEO Linkedin page, he is pretty much a "product designer", which is mainly about designing the visual shape of a product, not the function. He studiet at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (no engineering involved) and his stated skills are Photoshop, Indesigen and Solidworks. All programs to *show* a product, but not *create* one.
What could possibly go wrong...
Well to be fair Solidworks is used in engineering. Probably not at the University of Applied Arts though. We knew they were industrial designers from the start. If I'm not mistaken they stated that in their first trailer. Too bad "industrial designer" sounds so fancy to most people who don't realize it refers to people who design the shape of a consumer product's outer case.
A good Industrial Designer do care about function and engineering (ideally working with Aesthetics), look at top university such as Royal College of Art in RCA and ACCD in US. If you don't present a working prototype in graduation you fail. (I graduated in 2008 from RCA and Industrial design department is most critical). Dyson gots load of Industrial design background people.
"working prototype" - Well, i guess he failed right there then...
ambiva
How can they ask you to present a working prototype as an industrial designer when most of the work into the product goes into the insides(function) and industrial design deals mainly with the outsides(aesthetics and ergonomics)? Do they ask you to do 10x extra work that is beside your specialization? Can't imagine what they would want with a working prototype from a college graduate though.. How impressive can that be? The best thing I can imagine is the insides of an existing product on the market with a 3d printed case. I don't doubt Dyson has industrial designers in their employment, as do all companies that deal with consumer products.
Damn. Trying to think of a pun, but I’m coming up empty
Got Dam
i see what you did there
AND IT WAS GOOD
...I’m proud...
Water waste of time and money...:)
Empty like a fontus bottle
The saying, "if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is), comes to mind. Yet another group of poor fools who got scammed via the internet!
I've created a self-filling bottle, it does this by taking the air straight out of the air.
I've created a self-filling bottle, it does this when i'm pouring water into it.
I've got a bottle that can collect a litre of water in a few seconds under ideal conditions,.. It's just that the ideal condition is underwater.
How do you beat a dead horse? You kick it with a thunderFOOT.
This needs to go to the top!
In his defense, it keeps getting back up
wolfdwarf You did not realize the dead horse is a zombie horse. It get back up and up again.
It may be coming back up, but it's a 3 minute update followed by 23 minutes of the same video.
It's not even that they don't understand it, it's that they are actively taught to discount science in general as it's all a conspiracy to control what you think. Creationism, homeopathy, vaxxers, etc in order for their shit to work, has to convince you that science is biased.
I really like how this device they were selling was basically 1-liter plastic cup with a little solar powered deeliebopper on the top that supposedly filled up this 1-liter cup while you rode around on a bike or something. And the scammers were too cheap to even give their backers some novelty cups or canteens shaped like the prototypes.
I literally can't stop watching your videos man.
I take offense to this. A device just like this supplied more then enough water...... for my hamster..... before he got sick and died from Legionnaires disease. Which had nothing to do with the water...... I think.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_disease
Yeah it was from the water.
Also, really Raven ?😂
@@anevilrotisserie9136 whooooosh
diGritz1, I take offense to this!
My brother is a legionnaire!!!
It was lupus
lets all become legionnaires :D
You know what’s a great idea? A regular water bottle.
I got a bottle with Cola. It can even be used during Christmas.
100 water purification tablets cost 7 euros and you can make 100 liter water that you can drink without risk .
Take ONE tablet and put it in a 1 liter bottle with water and wait 30 - 60 min .
Everyone should have them if they are camping .
i clapped when i saw your comment! it broke new ground!
How about a pizza roll bottle instead?
Break any TVs with man-juice lately?
I love these "Busted" episodes!
I cannot lie, it is supremely funny to watch MIT researchers act like they are reinventing the world while working on a dehumidifier
My God could they tone it down with those promo videos
**insert epic royalty free music**
**insert dramatic panning drone shots**
**insert inception horn**
**insert fast-paced action edits**
"Look at our fancy water bottle~" :D
XD ;D;D;D
The best thing since vaccines! Solar freakin water bottles!!
It must be just coincidence that 99% of videos following that pattern present unpractical bs
inception horn is the most epic
"This water comes out of nowhere" - wut?
yes I was thinking the same 🤨
"FROM OUTTA NOWHERE!!!"
Actually it worked by pulling humidity from the air but it would probably take hours for it to fill up a little bit
You mean "worked" right?
hoshnasi humidity from the air fool
I have a genius idea! You just make a tube going up into the clouds and attach the end to a vacuum. Free water!
If we spent the same amount on drilling deep wells and providing purification systems, there would be far more people with clean water.
For only $250,000 I can create a device that will turn water into clean, renewable water vapor.
Haha
how?
@@1sydman1 Steam any water. It's the way to make tap water.
its called the sun. jk lmao
not sure if you are being cynical but i cant see the connection
Selffilling BEER bottle would've been easier to sell... :D
But making beer is hard work. Much better to rip off an old concept and claim that it's new :3
its not as if it falls from the sky or anything... oh.
Homebrewer supliers has this covered . Using hundreds of $$$ on gear and ingredients to make beer for 10$
It takes a fair amount of work and expertise to make drinkable beer. You have to drink a lot of beer for it to really pay off. The homebrews that I've tried (I belonged to a brew club a while back), weren't up to the standards of a good microbrewery.
biela88 I would back that just from the excitement of hearing the concept.
Doesn't this create Droughts if you had enough of them?
It steals water out of the air preventing clouds from getting heavy enough to drop rain
You'd need billions of them
Do you have any idea how big clouds are compared to a water bottle
@@mixrable1212, I just held water bottle up and it completely covered the cloud, so I don't know what you're talking about. 🤔
😉
@@mixrable1212
Or just a cupple of them
The size of a foot ball field
Dance powder
You’d have to pull whole oceans of water out of the air for that to happen
This TH-cam Channel is so entertaining. And a therapy towards mental sanity. Thank you, Sir Thunderfoot.
They should have claimed dehydration is a woman's issue. Then they could have drowned out their detractors with accusations of sexism.
Oh shit waddup
ey, well guess who is living in the areas with the most droughts, they probably could have done.
"People in Africa don't have access to clean drinking water. That's racist!"
Social Justice Warriors and Scammers can now unite, to not only help, but make it worse, and destroy the competition with rape allegations
they'll be unstoppable
Both of you guys are so awesome
"flexible goal" - that is a red flag for any project.
this device wouldn't have filled up in 10 years of its existence.
Don't say that, try to pray for 10 years straight, who knows :D
I actually never heard of this product. But I do agree that it's stupid that they claim to have invented it.
This is the cost of poor science education in public schools.
Derek Burge the education is fine-it's the studying and cramming for tests that's the broken system
how does that affect the MIT lady?
Rather the cost of not killing or enslaving stupid people right away
I wouldn't say so. Critical thinking needs more teaching but that doesn't equate to poor science education. I've had bags of science education but I likely wouldn't have thought this to be snake oil or wouldn't have thought to look into it. I think you need both an investigative mind and the knowledge with which to delve. I don't think it's as clear cut as poor science education
@@joselaw6669 I hope this is satire? DAE STEM subjects guys?
Music, history and language have value. Do you not listen to Music, do we not learn from history, do we not learn from each other across language barriers? Science and technology doesn't exist in a vacuum, the world has so much to offer.
@@stevenhale2935 Yeah but when I have to take 80 units that have no relation to my career what so ever kind gets me pissed. Knowing that I have to take a class that teaches me to write music notes or knowing why Romeo and Juliet have been butt flocking for the last 7 years in literally every English class since middle school...... yup 7 years of English.
I guess their claims just didn't hold water? .. ...
They were full of hot air.
unlike the insides of a fontus bottle, that money went right down the drain.
Their funds just dried up.
K'boom tish.
Carlos!
"You are a scam! Now, don't you feel shamed into doing right?"
"Oh wow, I misled people on purpose with full knowledge of my wrong doing and true goals and only now that you have called me out do I understand the error of my ways. Here is all your money back, because yes, I have been saving it quietly under my mattress and not spending it on food, shelter, and travel. Thank you so much for your valuable insight."
"Let this project live again some day!"
Trust me, it will. It'll keep coming back over and over and we'll never see it coming.
Hell, it's been doing that already.
Step one: get a barely passing grade in physics. Step two: GoFundMe
Quite the opposite sadly is the truth... high grades in physics today claims he solved the dark matter/energy mystery. And the guy with low grade has common sense enough to understand how thermodynamics work... strange world we live in.... the majority believes the liars and accuses the innocent.....
Step one is marketing 101.
@@NJ-wb1cz exactly! And often people who barely pass physics while understanding the principles usually skip marketing classes and don't care about the "science of bullshit" that is marketing.
@Daniel Eliahu Shapiro what you just stated is the exact opposite of the Dunning-Kruger effect and is far less likely than the reverse.
hahahaha getting a grade lmao you just have to be a semi good looking student and be slightly charming and idiots are throwing money at you left n right
Moral of the story: Always focus on making good adverts before making good products.
The smoother and higher the production value, the more convincing. That's how Apple has managed to convince millions of people to buy their products at inflated prices.
isn't that what apple does?
Even if it worked, it wouldn't generate enough water to sustain a cyclist
Love how when I did a search for you, leonard French comes up,after watching his download,much respect!
Not all heroes wear capes. Thank you Thunderf00t for debunking all the pseudoscience we’re exposed to on a daily basis. You do a real public service.
Solid gold hammers are a better investment than fontus
At least one of those works....
I quite fancy the solid gold hammer...
Ian Macfarlane can’t argue with that
And if you couldnt find any function for it, you could just scrap the material and still have something.
You hit the nail on the head
Thanks for always reminding me why i am subscribed to you :)
I must admit it is so fun to see you debunk these BS claims,
And yes.. i too admit that it is SO FUN TO GLOAT at these people when they crash and burn :D
This reminds me of the bars & restaurants in a hot dry part of the country started to spray water mist over the heads of outside patrons, the water would evaporate this would cool the air and that cold air falls onto the heads of the patrons, works really well in hot dry places. So one of the restaurant franchises decided to install it in my part of the country which is tropical with 90% humidity, the result was it just covered diners with water.
They missed an opportunity to add foodscanner to the device.
lol
The best startup I ever saw was a dildo that oozed mint sauce when you squeezed it and played the radio.
FONTUS: We're gonna make water out of air, folks!
People: Cool, how?
FONTUS: You'll know as soon as we do.
TheHorseFormerlyWithoutAName Well, they knew HOW to. They just didn't know how MUCH they could. A solar powered dehumidifier can only get so much water out of the air
My air conditioner produces a steady stream of water :+: From thin air! :+:
My humidifier produces a steady stream of steam from thin water
Little did you know, it was actually your own sweat.
I'm raising money to put this self emptying bottle I invented into production.
It empties automatically without you having to drink from it and doesn't even need sunlight to work.
I already have a crude working prototype but now I need money to put it into production.
Well if it's crude then it's not a prototype at all.
Richard Gates it’s obviously a prototype that only needs a little bit of our support in order for it to function properly and succeed in the market
Where's your IndieGoGo site? I'm willing to back.
Love you Thunderfoot! Keep busting that junk science!
Its not junk science, its a straight up scam.
+RipTheJackR
When it seems too good to be true, it usually is a scam!
I still can't believe Innovation Nation actually backed this
22:00 I think when someone was doing the initial back of the envelope feasibility calculations for this thing, they misplaced a couple of decimal points. And then never re-checked the numbers or did the proper math.
It simply didn't have enough LED's to work! Everybody knows, if it has a solar panal, it needs LED's! #SolarRoadWays
#SolarFreakinRoadways
In other shocking business news the makers of the world's first Sodium submarine have also filed for bankruptcy after failing to secure a buy-out from the chocolate teapot consortium.
I understand the Sodium Submarine Company just dissolved in a flash.
Do you think i'll be able to sell some one on my dry ice based high altitude hot air balloon?
Chocolate teapot has actually been done and it sort of works. You get chocolate tea and then you get to eat it.
Its a chocolate with a fairly high melting point, add in a very thick wall to give it time to make a mug ot 2 small
cups of (tea) and thats about all your going to get. But you can get one.
I would put my money on the chocolate teapot over anything similar to fontus.
" world's first Sodium submarine"
They assure us their lithium version works
Is that the Samsung version?
All of these kickstarters remind me of a device I "invented" as a kid. I drew a handheld laser cutter that had a starter battery, but had a photocell on the other end to absorb the laser energy, and recycle it forever. Basically a laser perpetual motion machine. It was not any less feasible than other kickstarters I've seen such as this one, maybe I should start a campaign? Making the CG rendering would be a piece of cake, that's all you need to get rich, right?
Not gonna lie the idea that I thought of when I saw this was like a solar distillery in a water bottle.
It should have offered an included a juice pack squeezer.
My straw bent ):
@@ndsiii aslo a nfc one
Well, if nothing else they were good at marketing. Kind of impressive to be able to pull in $300,000 for something that a highschooler could debunk.
Yeah, it sure shows the value of eye candy. Conversely, the science nerds (who actually know what they're doing), are lousy are marketing.
I totally forgot this video was even about Fontus, it was like a shock to my system when we started talking about Fontus again XD
even if these small portable devices worked, there's no way to scale it
To the backer who told Fontus to do research before starting a campaign. Maybe they should've done some research on the stupid product they were backing.
When you look at something through rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.
--Bojack Horseman explains the world.
@meaturama I've seen you in the comments section multiple times now with the same comment. You're adding absolutely nothing to the conversation. How about *you* "shut up"?
His brain has evolved to be capable of ONLY saying that. Poor man. I pity him.
@meaturama wow, you're definitely not a 12 year old with an anger issue now are you?
Who knows, man. Who knows.
This took longer than I expected.
This event, and this video.
☑ _inspirational_ music
☑ Manipulative speech
☑ They explain it like they were talking to a 5 years old
☑ "The greatest invention EVER!"
☑ "Never done before"
☑ Hyped by local news
I saw boats and yachts before and was never impressed but this time seeing that guy chilling in a boat footage seemed so enjoyable that I wanna be rich now 😅
"Pulls water particles from the air". The word you're looking for is "molecules".
I don't doubt theres definitely particles in that molecule soup lol
He's just sarcastically using the same terminology the scammers are. It's a long running joke that flies over the heads of some. Next, solar freakin roadways!
A molecule is a particle in the same way that you can have a particle of dust.
Those don't learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.
It cuts both ways.
It's not creating water from thin air, it's from extremely humid air.
I run a dehumidifier pretty often, very cheap and effective for producing smelly, rusty water. It's called an air compressor.
You'd know your dehumidifier would be working at optimum when it's raining.
if water were that easy to pull out of the air the romans would have been doing it.
You can but not with a bottle
How stupid should you be to write a comment like this?
Sheila Wolfie to br fair same an be said for cars planes etc
Lol what does that mean?
No, I'm saying if it were that easy to pull drinkable water out of the air it would have been done long ago.
I don't expect journalists to be experts on complicated engineering topics, but I think they should talk to someone who does. A lot of these articles are indistinguishable from corporate press releases. The one question that they should ask is "Why has nobody done this before?".
Journalists should research what they are writing about before spewing their uninformed opinions for others to read but real journalism died years ago.
@@Whatareyouareyou I've read tons of old Popular Science articles. It's always been this bad.
Journalists are generally retards so not surprising
To MIT students: The device you're building is nothing new, they've been around for a long time and commercially available...They're called dehumidifiers...
No filter?! What happens if someone farts by it?
Well vegeta that gets turned into "fresh" drinking water. Hahaha
Then shit would appear.
some salty water then
Unless you’re where I’m from then it’s called flavour
Optimal Prime no where I’m from it’s agua de sãvored
"self-filling water bottle" goes bankrupt.
Who would've thought.
Using dessicants to "collect water" requires separating water from the dessicant, which takes even more energy than simple cooling and condensation, even more impractical.
they do not use actual dessicants as in cat litter boxes... it's more a description of how the dehumidifier works, i think most of the examples shown use something like piezzo elements to cool down air and get its water content thereby to condense
I'll say one good thing about Kickstarter: it keeps failed, Austrian art students from trying to conquer Europe.