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    make water out of air.


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    Aren't these machines just a fancy version of a dehumidifier?

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    don't know how good they would work in arizona,low humidity some days under 10%.

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    Watched "Pimp my ride"...they put something like that in a car...pretty cool.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jefferson View Post
    Aren't these machines just a fancy version of a dehumidifier?


    Yep.

    I'm kinda partial to a driven point well myself.... where feasible.
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    Quote Originally Posted by O.S.O.K. View Post


    Yep.

    I'm kinda partial to a driven point well myself.... where feasible.
    According to the well drillers; 40-60 then 200 to 240 of solid rock; definitely a non-feasible here.

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    After I took a look: http://www.ecoloblue.com/technology with UV etc they are not quite your every day dehumidifier.

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    So its a dehumidifier that makes A LOT of water... 30 L per day....

    So?

    I don't get it?

    What do you do with the water? The top unit is $1600 bucks.


    Do you store the water in a 1000 gal tank? 5000 gal? How are you going to pressurize it for your home? In a SHTF, that needs electricity to run... first thing that's going to go down.

    You'd be better off drilling a well and using a hand pump.

    Guess I'm missing the point of this thing... sounds like a democraps "wet dream" pardon the pun.

    5 gallons a day... I'm sure it would taste better, but in a SHTF it'd be quicker to pull some water out of the creek/pond and boil it?

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    However, if you've gone green with solar pannels or a windmill.... this makes sense. Guess I'm digging too deep and reading too much into this thing?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Ducati View Post
    So its a dehumidifier that makes A LOT of water... 30 L per day....

    So?

    I don't get it?

    What do you do with the water? The top unit is $1600 bucks.


    How are you going to pressurize it for your home? In a SHTF, that needs electricity to run... first thing that's going to go down.
    Gravity my friend...When I was a much younger man, I grew up really poor, and we got all our water from a spring head. It fed into a huge collection tank, 1000 gal if I remember correctly and it was all gravity fed to the house.

    You start out with a larger pipe and gradually go to a smaller one to get more pressure. Its not great, but it works.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DesertDawg View Post
    Gravity my friend...When I was a much younger man, I grew up really poor, and we got all our water from a spring head. It fed into a huge collection tank, 1000 gal if I remember correctly and it was all gravity fed to the house.

    You start out with a larger pipe and gradually go to a smaller one to get more pressure. Its not great, but it works.
    Yep, you could also do something similar with a rainwater cistern, you could easily filter the rainwater with a simple gravel/sand/charcoal filter, gravity fed, and then treat the water with bleach or pool chlorine to be safe. This would work great if you couldn't sink a well and requires no electricity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Ducati View Post
    So its a dehumidifier that makes A LOT of water... 30 L per day....
    Being interesting is a long way off from being interested in buying.

    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Ducati View Post
    5 gallons a day... I'm sure it would taste better, but in a SHTF it'd be quicker to pull some water out of the creek/pond and boil it?
    Unless your shtf world includes electricity digging a well would be quicker.

    lol

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