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Klimatec Base 1 AirWater Machine extracts gallons of fresh water from the air
There’s gallons of water hanging in the air, and the Klimatec Base 1 AirWater Machine extracts it for your drinking pleasure. It’s not just a few drops here and there, either — this beast can give you an astonishing five gallons of fresh H2O every 24 hours. It cleans the extracted water with an active carbon filter, runs it through an ultraviolet light chamber to kill bacteria, and then serves it up to you hot or chilled.
The first caveat we thought of: This AirWater machine must use a lot of power, but Klimatec fixed that, too, offering a solar power option so the machine can keep on working even after the apocalypse. You’ll need powerful solar cells, though — it requires 480W to operate. It even goes beyond providing mere water, offering an optional refrigerator to keep food and beers cold.
This sounds so useful, we’re wonder if there’s a catch. Would it work in the desert? Could it be way too pricey to be practical? We’ve contacted the company about that — stay tuned for a pricing update.
Klimatec, via Red Ferret
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By EnOne at 4:45 PM ON 06/30/08
Dune, Tatooine, just some other examples of 'moisture farming' the cost in power as always depends on how precious the resource is. And how much it takes to generate the power.
By Randall at 4:51 PM ON 06/30/08
I hope you don't need to go to Tashi Station to replace the power converters.
By thausgt at 7:18 PM ON 06/30/08
On a slightly more serious note, given the bad publicity that bottled water (which will probably soon include the five-gallon versions supplied by Culligan, Arrowhead, etc.) is generating, as well as concerns about where that bottled water is coming from, this technology might well be The Coming Thing. Could someone please alert Brisco County Jr.?
By budgethero at 11:49 AM ON 07/01/08
wouldn't this thing dry out the air in its vicinity? wouldn't that make things a little uncomfortable?
By Weebork at 1:42 PM ON 07/01/08
Charlie,
Any mention on it's cost? Also, it would work in a desert environment, it will just take longer to extract the water out of the air.
Budgethero,
Your air conditioning does the same thing, although it pipes the condensed water out of the house instead of into a container you could use to drink from.
By DMAN at 2:21 PM ON 07/01/08
Yeah i would love to see this work..I live in Arizona where we have 5% humidity today..how long would it take to get a gallon out of that? pretty cool though
By SteveBB at 3:09 PM ON 07/01/08
So basically you would be drinking other people's sweat etc?
By trollhattan at 3:31 PM ON 07/01/08
Is this thing not basically a fancy-schmancy room dehumidifier mated to a water filtration system?
I'd speculate yeah, the local climate would have a big influence on production rate. Florida in summer? Hundred gallons a day!
By Duncan7785 at 8:03 PM ON 07/01/08
Put these things inside data centers and anywhere that has rooms with computer racking. takes the moisture out of the air while providing a drinking source fro the IT techs.... kills 2 bids with 1 stone in my eyes.
By Brian H at 8:34 PM ON 07/01/08
SteveBB;
You've been drinking recycled dinosaur urine your whole life. Deal.
That's about 12kwh for 5 gallons, or an average of $1-2 electricity cost, or about 20-40¢/gal. most places (though it would be about 15¢ where I happen to live.)
By Whitewolf2k at 2:13 AM ON 07/02/08
That would be perfect here in Minnesota it gets Very Humid. having it pull water out of the air would make it feel nicer here
By Thirty? at 4:21 PM ON 07/31/08
relative humidity needs to be 35 to 100 percent ... so much for use in dry areas, eh!
By jpm106 at 8:36 PM ON 08/05/08
I am a sales rep for a company that sells a similar machine like the one above but our machine is actually FDA approved. We sell them for $ 1,600.00. If anyone is interested you can email me at jpm106@aol.com