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Nope, there's no magic or free lunch. It depends heavily on local conditions which might not always be suitable.

Thunderf00t has debunked a bunch of other enterprises doing water from the air:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc7WqVMCABg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPvXnmBIO7o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGTRX6pZSns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVsqIjAeeXw

etc

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Thanks for the links! Mostly scams and very bad science journalism indeed.

However, he completely misses the mark in his video about the Science paper "Water harvesting from air with metal-organic frameworks powered by natural sunlight" [1]. He declares it a hoax, but ignores pretty much everything from the paper.

Surprisingly, far down the comment section, there is a comment explaining that [2].

[1] http://globalscience.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/waterh...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGTRX6pZSns&lc=UgzJoHtYGBwXk...

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