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FREE water from AIR device: BUSTED
Thunderf00t
Thunderf00t critiques the MIT and Berkeley metal-organic framework device that claims to pull water from air using only solar heating. He argues the energy accounting does not work and that such devices are essentially fancy dehumidifiers.
HN uses it as the standard debunking to cite whenever a new water-from-air device is announced.
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