Crystalline nets harvest water from desert air, turn CO2 into liquid fuel

Re:Crystalline nets harvest water from desert air, turn CO2 ... by liability on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @02:41AM (#20874582)

If you have a well, or the infrastructure to ship in water, then you're not in the situation I was talking about, are you? I didn't say people shouldn't live in deserts. I said that people shouldn't live in deserts if they cannot acquire safe drinking water.

Either you figure out a way to get water, or you move to someplace where you can (perhaps another location in that same desert, but closer to a road that water trucks can navigate?) Such is the tyranny of our basic biological needs.

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Re:Crystalline nets harvest water from desert air, turn CO2 ... by newnewpdro on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @03:05AM (#20874674)

Except it's rather precarious to rely on hauling water with automobiles.

If this contraption works and is reliable it effectively turns all desert land into land w/potable water.

Why should we disregard this progress and what it enables?

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Re:Crystalline nets harvest water from desert air, turn CO2 ... by liability on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @03:16AM (#20874741)

(Just so we're clear, it almost certainly won't work, just as it hasn't all the other times it's been proposed.)

If it works for you and you're paying for it, then more power to you. If it works and the rest of society is paying for it, subsidizing your lifestyle, then it becomes reasonable to figure out what the most efficient method of ensuring you have access to water is. If funding the installation of these devices is more efficient than relocating you, then great. However if relocating your community makes more ecological and economic sense, then you should either find a way to support yourself, or accept relocation.

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