A Machine that Makes Drinking Water from Air


	A Machine that Makes Drinking Water from Air

Silkweaver

11-27-2008 10:57 AM

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water, water crisis

Silkweaver says:

We just some ingenuity all human problems can be solved....

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11-27-2008 12:17 PM

brightlight4

That means, even when it doesn't rain we will have water?

11-27-2008 12:30 PM

Silkweaver

Yes, so it seems. Rain is a phenomenon that depends both on air humidity and temperature. In some places it might be too hot for rain though there is a lot of humidity.

11-28-2008 10:26 AM

Deepti

that's great news...I wish them all the best

12-5-2008 10:53 AM

Spiritualmonkey

Isn't this what Luke and the Lars family did on the old Tattooine moisture farm?

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