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How about in wet, hot environments (or even cold ones), like on a boat? Watermakers are very expensive and use a lot of electricity. If one could do this on a boat to generate clean drinking water, that would be pretty amazing. Especially if one could use a tube solar oven to heat up the substance.


Third paragraph of TFA:

> The research builds on previous breakthroughs from the team, including the ability to pull water out of the atmosphere[1] and the application of that technology to create self-watering soil[2]. However, these technologies were designed for relatively high-humidity environments.

1: https://news.utexas.edu/2019/03/13/solar-powered-moisture-ha...

2: https://news.utexas.edu/2020/11/02/self-watering-soil-could-...




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