MITs 'FREE water from air' device, BUSTED! (Patreon)

This one really bugged me because I expect this BS from scammy kickstarters, I dont expect it from the worlds top university.

They claimed to be able to get kgs of water per day in conditions as dry as the Mohave desert using nothing but heat from the sun.  In reality they delivered a modestly modified peltier effect dehumidifier which could  optimistically condense 0.1 g of water per hour and at a cost of about $150 per liter.

It was sadly reflective of the modern media in that almost no one questioned their sensational claims, despite obvious cues, like 'if the device can deliver kg of water per day, why do we never see more than a few drops of water condensed?'  Sadly across the board, people care more about if makes a good title for a news piece than if its true or not.

The Wall Street Journal video on this was comically inept!  They thought the peltier device was the 'water absorbing powder', and that the device actually produced drinkable amounts of water.  Their scientific 'journalist' looks like they just looked at the device and made everything else up!