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$300 000 'self-filling water bottle' failure (Patreon)

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2017-03-05 18:46:28
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2026-06
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Okay this just blew my mind.  In the year since I busted this, their design has essentially morphed from the sleek elegant 'self-filling water bottle' of their indiegogo campaign to a regular dehumidifier.  $300 000 to reinvent something thats been on the market for decades!

Then the bit that just takes the biscuit, they were named 'top 4 start up of 2016' by some government initiative........

All for an idea which you can trivially show is BS with some back of an envelope calculations :-(


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$300 000 'Self-Filling water bottle' FAILURE

If I wanted to be rich (instead of being a scientist) it would be SOOOO much easier, especially if I didnt care about predating on people ignorance. It does however get depressing sometimes seing someone trot out a clearly stupid idea (like fontus), get $300 000 of crowd funder money, and design awards.

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MrHHH

I live in Colorado, and I've looked into alternative ways of getting water. The problem with getting it out of the air, is that the water in the air evaporated from the ground or a nearby body of water. And if you have that, you don't need to pull it out of the air.

Anonymous

I have a question: Can I only pay the $100 once to hang out with you? Please let me know.

Anonymous

Yes - it seems there is a potentially legitimate way to get water from air - albeit a totally different approach than the method previously discussed.