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$300 000 Self-Filling water bottle, SUPERFAIL! (Patreon)

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2017-05-30 12:51:22

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2026-06

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Well... big reveal! They've redesigned their self filling water bottle to fit inside itself- probably the best place for it.

It looks like they now have realistic claims, ironically VERY close to what I stated in my original busted video. Or more specifically, their claims are now consistent with commercially available dehumidifiers. The down side of this is it will guzzle up way too much power to be sensibly run off a solar mat. They have a backup plan however.... it involves just plugging it into the mains....WOW! A great 'self filling' water bottle!

However they even managed to screw up just copying a commercial dehumidifier by stating it will run at 200 W! Stepping down and rectifiying the voltage from mains to the 12 V for the peltier device will take a LARGE power brick. Oddly they don't show that power brick in their video.

Further, now, after a year, they are talking about leaving thermoelectric devices completely and going for a compressor based system. At this point you really do just have to bury your head in your hands. They want to miniaturize a refrigerator and put it on top of a 'self filling water bottle'... sigh......

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$300 000 Self-Filling water bottle, SUPERFAIL!

Amazingly, Fontus, the 'self-filling water bottle' just wants to keep going. Initially I demonstrated that what they were promising simply wasnt possible.... thermodynamically. Now they seem to have taken that on board, increased the solar panel size by 10, and reduced the promised water collection by 10. Their promises are now realistic, but are now basically exactly those of a cheap pelitier dehumidifier. Off the mains it can under IDEAL hot and humid conditions, maybe get a couple of liters per day. Running off a 100 watt solar panel they can maybe get 1 liter of water per day. Thats 1/3rd of your daily requirement. Ontop of that water from the air tends to pick up all sorts of nasty volatile organic crap from the air, and the trap just tends to be a place to cultivate bacteria. On the grand scheme of things, getting water out of the tap is HUGELY more safe. You can support work like this directly through Patreon. https://www.patreon.com/Thunderf00t