Waterseer -BUSTED!
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as a warning and a debunking whenever water-from-air or similar crowdfunded gadgets appear.
What it is
Thunderf00t debunks the Waterseer, a crowdfunded device that claims to condense drinking water from the air using cool ground. He argues the physics does not support its claims.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2017 to 2021.
What Hacker News said
Critical Houshalter · 2017-08 · on “Generate energy with kites”
Bad ideas often get funding and support from prestigious seeming institutions. Look at the stupid waterseer thing: [this video]
Critical pure-awesome · 2018-01 · on “Cape Town could be the first city to run out of water”
Watch out for Waterseer. Not sure I trust that company after their ludicrous misjudgement in their first invention: [Thunderfoot Video]( [this video] ) [Lindybeige Video]( [LINK] ) Side-note: I live in the Cape Town area. We got on international news! Yay us...? Honestly, I'm pretty worried.
Critical jason0597 · 2019-10 · on “Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?”
>Instead of water line pipes, pull water out of the air. I thought this story was put to bed a long time ago? [0] [0] [this video]
Critical imglorp · 2021-08 · on “Spanish engineers extract drinking water from thin air”
Nope, there's no magic or free lunch. It depends heavily on local conditions which might not always be suitable. Thunderf00t has debunked a bunch of other enterprises doing water from the air: [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] [this video] etc