X-prize gives 1.5 MILLION dollar STUPIDITY prize! (Patreon)

'just drop a container in the middle of nowhere, and youve got free renewable water'...... errr NO.

In reality the winners were given $1 500 000 for simply connecting a wind turbine on Hawaii to a dehumidifier.  The dumb thing is Hawaii gets plenty of rain, which is why its a nice green island.  This is not surprising, most islands are surrounded by the ocean, which gives high humidity.  But its MUCH cheaper to run a reverse osmosis unit to get clean drinkable water from the ocean rather than try to pull it out of the air.

The x-prize here has simply given one and a half million dollars for people make something that is about 10x more expensive than current water generating methods.  Its kinda like giving someone one and a half million dollars to make their car run on burning diamonds or inventing solid gold bullets to fight a war with!

The even more infuriating thing is this came merely a month or so after Fontus (the self filling water bottle) went bust.  I was really hoping that we might get just a little respite from this vapid snake oil!

For the next video I figure Im going to give you some insight into the actual research Im doing.  Sure it might not promise to solve all the worlds problems.... but theres something captivating about seeing something no living person has seen before ;-)