Waterseer -BUSTED!

[@Fellwinter]

Thunderfoot killed my dreams of becoming a moisture farmer.

[@gotrump8560]

Fellwinter moisture farmer. Hahahahaha O o o bwa haw haw haw Toooo damn funny

[@abbytran8514]

But I wanted to go to tashi station to pick up power converters!

[@The_Gallowglass]

@@abbytran8514 Just one more season, Luke. We need you.

[@ElTwOJaY]

@@The_Gallowglass yes, Luke. We need you to bury us.

[@AmaroqStarwind]

“I used to be a simple moisture farmer, but we’re all freaks now, because of that monster you built!”

[@CesarJoseee]

Every sixty seconds a minute passes in Africa. Think of the children.

[@tompeargin8319]

This is correctly stated at the beginning of the video. It is not the shortage of water, it is the shortage of CLEAN water that kills people. If you want to donate to Charitable organization that deal with such problems directly, try Engineers Without Borders

[@petitio_principii]

Even they won't be able to deal with the fact that every sixty seconds a minute passes in Africa. Maybe if they find out gravitons and use them to slow time, though.

[@vock009]

yes and also the children in africa have nothing to smoke

[@bByxinnOceNz]

no.

[@typingcat]

Won't somebody, **please** think of the children.

[@xvx4848]

Thunderfoot I want you to know you've changed my view on life and science for the better! Always love your videos man!

[@stylis666]

xvx4848 Same here.

[@jay-ur1mj]

keep up the good work expose those assholes

[@aeew]

Gonna piggyback on this comment, because mine drowned, sorry about that: If we bury these things at beaches, with the lower part submerged below the waterline, we solve the energy dissipation problem and provide clean drinking water in coastal areas with no mountains nearby, right?

[@aeew]

Would changing the dimensions of the pipe alleviate that problem? Or changing the design of the air inlet to something like a funnel connected to a weather vane making it point directly into the humid ocean winds? I can see that the design, as it is now, appears very flawed, but I'm thinking that with a few tweaks they could be improved enough to become feasible, and actually provide at least some amount of water. Looking for solutions here.

[@qu4dq0r3]

nah i would skipp that device allready, and if you are in region with beach access you should actually take that avialable saltwater, heat it up to boiling point and let the vapor condense, which seperates the salt from the water in a a simple distillation process just found that im sure you can apply that to your hypothized coast water problem aswell :D www.wikihow.com/Turn-Salt-Water-Into-Drinking-Water

[@X02switchblades]

back in the old days (grandpa voice) you made a prototype with your own money and then checked it it worked (important) BEFORE presenting it to the world

[@memoofjacoboarbenzjuanarev9724]

Back then America had good scienctists but over the years they left the land of the Stupid.

[@darkmattersolo2137]

Gronx DaggerDick So true

[@memoofjacoboarbenzjuanarev9724]

@@darkmattersolo2137 yiah why would such gifted minds stay in a country that half bashes them and calls them liers and some say it's for those 30 50k grants? Like bro the scum scienctist that work with the Gas companies get 100thousands of dollars to come up with fake studies the like 3% of scienctist who deny Climate change wonder why 💰😕 ...You know these idiots use a clip from Its always sunny in Philadelphia to argue why science is fake. But no why? Because the stuff they write can be done by you yourself if you put in the actual effort your bogus science can't be done at all that's the difference Stoopid between science writing and your foil hat ramblings.

[@skuula]

Those times are over. Even serious products are launched before they work, and then hopefully fixed with firmware updates.

[@TomJakobW]

@@memoofjacoboarbenzjuanarev9724 that’s just factually wrong.

[@ninjabob42]

When I was younger I had an idea like this, where it would act much like a cold soda can, collecting condensation with a cool aluminium shell. Then I did some research and in about 5 minutes discovered that it was not possible. I should have started a kickstarter so I could walk away from my failed plots rich

[@MeNotyouxD]

I don't care if it's real or fake, I always prefer drinking my own urine like a real man.

[@thegentleman7982]

Do you happen to be Bear Grylls?

[@bigb0ss282]

MeNotyouxD THE SALAD MAN.

[@elypecht]

MeNotyouxD Man vs wild theme plays in the background

[@sheikhyaboooty]

As someone with german blood in their veins I prefer other peoples urine, ideally when I`m in my skintight rubber suit and mask strapped upside down in a dimly lit dungeon.

[@Magus12000BC]

sheikhyaboooty Triggered! That's exactly where I found myself when Laci Green spiked my drink.

[@TheeGlocktopus]

Philanthropic Cause + Narrator with foreign accent + Computer generated renders = money

[@SpectralSuperSonic]

If that's the case sign me up, what's the next big thing?

[@memoofjacoboarbenzjuanarev9724]

You forget the Cheapest CGI as possible with vaige designes.

[@FeuerblutRM]

Don't forget the meditation music.

[@AverageAlien]

how's that a foreign accent?

[@leeprice133]

@@AverageAlien yeah, sounds more like a generic text-to-speech machine. I don't actually think it is one, but it's definitely not a 'foreign accent'. It's almost RP English, the polar opposite of a foreign accent as far as the English language.

[@jackmurphy6510]

What if you put it in a stream? Way more heat capacity... wait shit. This is some great tech, the less you need it, the more feasible it is.

[@grahamc5922]

Not so silly, it might evaporate then condense it - no wait - this is all about heaping shit on it. :-(

[@johnlshilling1446]

Exactly how banks determine who gets the loans...

[@technophant]

The water in the stream isn’t clean. Condensate could be, or have bird feces.

[@Skwisgar2322]

those are NOT engineering students, they are DESIGN students, this is exactly what they do, design cool ideas, but never actually worry about the actual function or implementation.

[@Skwisgar2322]

Then they ask the engineering students how to make it work and get a glazed look on their face when you explain to them why it wont.

[@unitednerd7414]

Skwisgar2322 Yeah interdisciplinary projects like that are a nightmare.

[@theultimatereductionist7592]

"those are NOT engineering students, they are DESIGN students" EXACTLY!

[@TKnightcrawler]

I wonder how clean the water would be with all that dust blowing in, and a pool of warm water that never fully empties sitting there for months/years... assuming it worked.

[@ToshAroundMac]

Take a look in the container of a dehumidifier after a couple of weeks. It's disgusting. The dust, spores, pollution, etc, gather on the droplets of condensing water. It's not clean water.

[@KnakuanaRka]

TKnightcrawler The problem with water isn't getting it, it's cleaning it.

[@deathsgaze5826]

"Clean safe" please...

[@danisyx5804]

mud and mold mostly

[@na9565]

That's a polution capturer

[@ogre589]

christ I feel im watching a camouflaged version of the nigerian online scam every time Thunderfoot does one of these Busted videos.

[@Rintaro88]

just had the same thought

[@jamesthatoneguy9516]

unlike with some things he covers, I could tell this was BS from the beginning. how is it supposed to compress air if it can't vent air to continue the compression and condensation.

[@un-possiblemagician6471]

Someone honestly needs to start doing a quality control on these sorts of things, but I have a distinct feeling there's a lot of politics that goes on behind the scenes... If Wikileaks one-day uncovered all the shady shit behind these types of things, I wouldn't be surprised.

[@jamesthatoneguy9516]

+Un-Possible Magician ikr, I wish some of these people/corporations/businesses/organizations would stop pulling my heart strings.

[@tj12711]

+Un-Possible Magician +Un-Possible Magician Kickstarter type companies don't care that 99.999% of the products funded are scams. They live and die off of the projects getting funded and people feeling like they are contributing to the advancement of society (ensuring they'll be repeat customers and fund other projects). Crowdfunding is a joke

[@EbuCallinav]

That is one good looking cubic meter of air.

[@kaishadowninja5989]

EbuCallinav 👍👍👍

[@harrycave6309]

😏

[@Vincent-jq7bq]

I like the giant tank truck more😉

[@grandmastarflash]

Thunderfoot really needs to stop putting women in cages though

[@tenshi7angel]

This thread made my day. xD

[@1schwererziehbar1]

Let that poor woman out of her cube, you misogynist!

[@guywithscares]

first you let the potato out the microwave

[@holdenroberts6973]

I womens naturally liek cubes and are submissive 2 mens u femist. #Mgtow

[@RealRiders]

up you go!

[@googleeatsdicks]

It's no woman. It's air. Duh!

[@randywatson8347]

It's art, vaporwave. :-)

[@DanielKay06]

It's essentially the Fontus self filling water bottle all over again, this time with a thick coating of sob stories.

[@knutove626]

Yeah, pretty much.

[@Circuitssmith]

Are you the actual guy who draws furry porn or just a fan?

[@Fetablue]

Dan D Daniel Kay? Never heard of that artist... Wrong place to ask that question though.

[@Circuitssmith]

TheRealToaster2 Shhhh, I'm curious.

[@DanielKay06]

***** Yea that's me, but I'm here on my off time :D

[@SirArghPirate]

Okay, so you need a fair amount of energy to produce the water? The answer is: Solar freaking roadways. Just build some roadways first.

[@interdictr3657]

and since we are taking the water out of the roadways, they wont short out! Genious

[@mr.actiongal1017]

and give everyone that super efficient car

[@Monochromatic_Spider]

That's actually not a bad idea. Solar freaking roadways everywhere and then waterseers in the cracks between them. That way we have solved all the issues in one go. The waterseer provides clean water, which is great for the environment, and it heats up the solar freaking roadways so snow isn't a problem. And when there's no wind then the solar freaking roadway can power the waterseer. It's a total win-win situation!!

[@tj12711]

+No OHMYGOD, you fucking genius! Not only can it power our cities with electricity, but it can supply us with our water too!!!!!!!! Solar FREAKING roadways herp derp

[@SirArghPirate]

Holy! Just build waterseers on top of every street light! $$$

[@willit1018]

The woman doing the voice-over is speaking just slow enough to infuriate me beyond belief... Which doesn't even take into account the idiocy of the project...

[@KingPrintmaker]

Pretty sure that's a robot voice

[@Automedon2]

The way she sensually massages "clean, safe, drinking water"

[@Lakaa]

You can speed it up or slow it down more.

[@ghosturiel]

Interesting. I've heard that slow soothing voices like these are sometimes used to plant suggestions into people's minds like a form of pseudo mind control. Probably bull shit, but it doesn't cost them anything more for using a voice like this, and if you can get people to listen to this crap in the first place without raising their eyebrows, your likely dealing with already gullible folks.

[@theCodyReeder]

Great video! this is the type of video that I am subscribed for. hey want to look at the "flow hive"?

[@cerox4133]

Hi Cody!

[@eivilcow33]

You and your bees......

[@matthewberry839]

Cody'sLab didn't expect to see you here

[@xaddr7809]

Great video, but the idea behind the concept is valid and can be made to work in certain areas of the world. For example in UAE, average temperature 6 months in a year is around 40C with around 60% humidity. Solar powered condenser would benefit from good sun exposure and increased efficiency due to extreme air humidity. The collected water could then be stored underground in a type of swale and used to irrigate dessert native plants and trees. Plants will provide further water storage capacity and prevent water runoff when it eventually rains.Also they will provide food, and as we all know, modern agriculture is very water intensive, so there will be huge amount of water saved.

[@scottlarsen466]

You can't get rid of the heat log term. The ground is a better insulator than it is a conductor. It is a simple heat transfer problem. The Waterseer can pump heat i faster than the soil can carry it away. The ground will heat ad the you heat sink loses effectiveness and disappears. A lot of people will say it will work but they fail to say how they will get around the heat transfer to the ground issue. The ground becomes thermally constipated in a short amount of time.

[@TheRevolucas]

so it's like a dehumidifier that isn't powered? Takes a couple months to fill up the reservoir on my dehumidifier running 24/7.

[@212superdude212]

what i was thinking

[@212superdude212]

mine takes about a week or two to fill up

[@LWolf12]

+Lamb Chop Dude, where do you live? A Georgia swamp or the rain forest?

[@serpico1616]

Same here. Two days and it's full

[@gurtthedwarf]

one day here circa in summer, and before you ask i do live in a swampy place surrounded by sea

[@5Daniil5]

I have a friend, living in Cyprus. He is getting enough water for all its needs, out of the air. But he has a very large underground area of its property piped through. He uses several solar panels, fans, and few pumps to keep the flow. He, also, have a filtration system inline. So it is possible, but it got to be 1000 times bigger than this little thing.

[@tybofborg]

Also living on a suptropical island where the air is usually quite warm and humid helps.

[@lotrbuilders5041]

Daniil Kagan yes it is possible with the high humidity in Cyprus, but not really in such a size

[@The_Gallowglass]

Thunderf00t, my man, they have moisture farms all over Tattooine.

[@Sp1cycrustpizza]

damn you're right

[@bllt9]

I'm just baffled how some top colleges can endorse this. Like I thought there be at least one guy there who'd call bullshit on this and explain it to everyone

[@npharaoh8675]

sonofkabisch LMAO yes! This comment. It was probably true too...

[@davidkafka2452]

bllt9 oh you mean like in South Africa?

[@bllt9]

David I have no idea what you mean

[@aritakalo8011]

bllt9 yeah. one call to the closest physics department would be enough to find out these stuff don't work. this is first year university physics stuff, no scratch that this is high school physics. energy doesn't just disappear. it has to go somewhere and phase transformation take energy. this is so fundamentally basic, that this has to be intentionally nefarious. nobody can be that clueless, that they didn't consult the nearest environmental scientist (find out about humidity being a variant thing around the world) and nearest physicist (who would tell them that no they either weren't special star children and couldn't violate thermodynamics and conservation of energy). If they really really had good intentions, they would have done the research ages ago and stopped the project after finding it Impossible. If making water out of thin air was that easy, we would have done it century ago. It's not like militaries havent spend billions in research in window ways to provide drinking water to combat troop in the field. but no these people think they were to first think about this and the first clever idea they thought up must be correct since they are brilliant people at UC Berkley. (at the same time the Berkley physics lab, which is actually a pretty respected institute is probably asking themselves how they can have ended up under same name assossiated with these people)

[@jonsmith4677]

Have you recently dealt with an academic? College is the destination of the stupid. Smart people are hanging drywall and doing landscaping.

[@AuroraStarstorm]

Thunder foot please explain some real awesome kickstarters as well! Id love to donate to the newest in science innovation.

[@Dexyu]

yess good idea!

[@gemlord8584]

Yeah we need an independent mind to test these things for us and money needs to go to we're its needed.

[@mosel2580]

Kyle The Lucario would be nice!

[@cerberouse1]

Kyle The Lucario google lifestraw, seems actually legit and adresses tfs comment on the actual problem.

[@aserta]

Oh i'd love this. Like an offshoot of his science videos but for actual great kickstarters. :)

[@TheRevolucas]

I have a better idea! Why don't we make giant vacuum tubes as high as skyscrapers to suck water out of clouds!!! Can I have Nobel prize now?

[@deanvere4839]

Alundaio Damn son. You a genius.

[@Saxie81]

We can also suck the carbon out too, and create plastic!

[@leomadero562]

+Saxie81 and that would also help carbon emissions!

[@igethacked23]

Now this post this shit on Indiegogo and make millions! Then not deliver until 40-50 years later!

[@Wowthatsfail]

Alundaio imagine if your device captured a hurricane! It could produces millions of gallons and save people from hurricane attacks!

[@SethMethCS]

It's easier to filter dirty water or make a well than to collect water from the air. With that said some modifications are needed to make passive water from air devices work. To solve the heat transfer problem, my idea is to build in a sealed metal pipe with liquid ammonia inside. The ammonia pipe works like refridgeration, the heat vaporizes the ammonia which carries the heat to the top of the pipe, where it radiates away & ammonia condenses to repeat the cycle. This way the air entering the waterseer touches the cool pipe and any water in the air condenses out. The ammonia pipe is in the center of the waterseer from the turbine top to the bottom resivoir & unless the ammonia leaks out needs no service the whole system needs no electricity input. This is what engineers did to the keep the permafrost cool along the Lhasa-Beijing railway, they piled pipes into the ground filled with ammonia which transferred the heat out of the ground passively next to the tracks.

[@PapaWerserian]

I don’t know what any of this says but it’s amazing

[@SaadForGaming7]

In my opinion the flaws of this design you presented is cost and maintenance problems. There's a lot of point of failure (at least from what I understand) which defeat the whole purpose to donate the tool to poor countries.

[@jan237]

Basically heatpipes?

[@Sleepy.Time.]

Thunderfoot is why we cant have nice scams

[@PapaWerserian]

That’s why make your scams in a non scientific way

[@ICrazySkills]

Engineers, designers, artists... if only they had got a fucking scientist lol

[@Ghi102]

ICrazySkills A proper engineer should've been able to figure that out. Most do thermodynamics classes.

[@Ghi102]

ICrazySkills A proper engineer should've been able to figure that out. Most do thermodynamics classes.

[@AlintraxAika]

"Engineers"

[@MrBDF2000]

Most engineers in any declared major would learn this stuff in their first or second year of college in Thermodynamics 101. Assume that any professional engineers related to projects like these know its a scam, and that any engineering students associated with it are lazy, don't care, or have other priorities.

[@brunoaamello]

not even a scientist would be needed, such basic thermodynamics I studied in high school...

[@Kingsman4101]

Ever notice how these scams always seem to have spinning thingies on top....

[@MichaelPrajanto]

Kingman101 Spinning Solar Roadways!

[@mumm-ra.the.everliving]

it makes it look like it's actually doing something...

[@AleksandarGrozdanoski]

They are trying to address the monkey in us. They expect us to go like "Look, something shiny ...and moving. Wow!"

[@drakkenmensch]

Spinning solar roadways are obviously needed for our thorium-powered infinite cars.

[@mimi2]

How to get free water. Get a dehumidifier, place it near a solar roadway, and boom!

[@hakusansaku8800]

yeah, as you watch your money flying out the window xD

[@Crick1952]

Ok, this is really simple. Step 1. Decolonize your mind. Step 2. Use the Waterseer to melt glaciers. Step 3. Profit Step 4. (optional) Curse people who disagree with you with lighting bolts.

[@sitromxe9472]

Guy: "Global warming isn't happening fast enough..." *Guy in lab coat bursts through wall carrying a Waterseer* Guy in lab coat: "Nothing that some good old human ingenuity can't solve!"

[@がに-k6n]

2.5 use your decolonized mind to make glaciers appear near to where you live

[@phileas007]

So you've been paying attention. well done :)

[@Ghostwalker2061]

lol. Yup, that would work.

[@T-Jex]

Crick1952 YEAH! ALL SCIENCE MUST DIE!! *checks his cell phone*

[@Zeuskabob1]

I need to become an educator. When the bar is set this low, I can't possibly fail!

[@Wowthatsfail]

Zeus Kabob just an educator? You could be president of the world with that level of ambition!

[@gotrump8560]

Zeus Kabob nor can the waterseer

[@sadochrist8534]

If people walk from their village to the water and the water is 40 miles away why don't they just move the village nearer to the water?

[@RealMisterDoge]

HONESTLY THIS What kind of idiot sets up shop so far from something so necessary This is why the rest of the planet is so far ahead of Africa

[@letmeinidiots]

Sadochrist and make themselves targets for warlords and mercenaries who want their water source for themselves?

[@Seldonlair]

Sadochrist They do, but, y'know, "Why let a truth of reality get in the way of a good crusade?" These fuckers live in California, and cannot imagine living anywhere else but the most overdeveloped desert in the world, where water is delivered, in demand, wherever the fuck they happen to be. In reality, also known as the rest of the world, people living in arid areas always find a source of water (good or bad) before settling down to live...well, anywhere. Because we need it. Always. And we need it even moreso in a desert. But morons who've never lived outside of their engineering bubble have fuck-all knowledge about real world facts that have been understood since before we fucking developed language.

[@TheSpeculatingApe]

Mosquitoes. I don't remember where I read it, but that was the explanation.

[@chinogambino9375]

Land rights, investment costs in moving, water sources are seasonal and unpredictable and/or land near those sources may not be arable or suitable for livestocking.

[@Dragonblaster1]

Clean, _fresssh_ drinking water from the air: along with dust, sand, insects, bacteria, mould... really healthy.

[@rexex345]

is it me or is anyone feeling like deja vu? one would think people would learn after that water bottle thing

[@rexex345]

also I'm pretty sure the 24/7 thing is bs since deserts get very very cold at night

[@diogoalmeidavisuals]

Edward Powell the desert does, but the places where these people live don't, if that was the case they wouldn't be able to live there

[@luc9450]

Edward Powell deja vu! I just been in this place before! Higher on the streets lalalalalalalalalaaa

[@voomastelka4346]

This old Dilbert strip sums it up: dilbert.com/strip/1994-10-11

[@scottthewaterwarrior]

+Luc Marguerat They should bring the air they need in on trains that go really fast because they multi track drift! :p

[@sinisternightmare]

Maybe they are using decolonialized science. :-)

[@Antares2]

Yep! If you can curse someone and send a lightning at them, surely you can curse yourself and send some rain...

[@louiethepitt]

yeah real science is to White and real.... the decolonized science is way more fun...they could have a witch Doctor put a spell on the machine for it to work.... but seriously...this sounds like just a University entrepreneur project blown why out of proportion by someone with doubtful Ethics willing to exploit the Drama of lack of water to gain a quick buck then change the name of the company again and start with a new Collage student project.... or maybe in this new Snow Flake world we live is all about the Good Wishes.... just like the Democrats...lots of good wishes.

[@shlomohammedibnal-israeli4258]

+louiethepitt I'd bet on the latter. I've read a few years back that amount of real, practical patents were dropping like a rock. "I totally wonder why".

[@Zanzibar2Far]

Maybe a UC Berkeley witch doctor targets lightening on the waterseer, this would more than cover the energy required (~5 billion joules)...as a bonus, buckets can be placed to collect any accompanying rain!

[@deciusvarus]

I don't want no OOGA BOOGA science.

[@bigchunk1]

Best way to get water is move out of the desert.

[@carterwood4197]

*Israelis

[@carboy101]

Shadowsafter I guess this you're what a garbage human looks like.

[@Chris-Brown-]

move out of the desert and next to a river.... dont be an idiot

[@yuriismywaifu203]

But moving is hard and dangerous. It also costs money and the people moving would be leaving their lives behind... Sounds stupid right? It's because it is. www.wateraid.org/uk/news/news/why-walk-for-water-your-seven-biggest-questions-answered

[@Specoups]

Tell that to the people our countries refuse to shelter.

[@Vlek]

9:04 in developing countries. sees one in germany. eehm, miss i think i can remember that germany is not in war anymore.

[@cavejohnson4306]

Bouncy Banana I saw one in the US too.

[@klassehkhornate9636]

@@cavejohnson4306 TBH places like Detroit and Baltimore exist

[@Jaydee8652]

Kennan Hottinger, but detroit has robots! They don’t like water!

[@FentFanta]

I SEE NAZIS EVERYWHERE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[@KeyManDan]

Totally doable tech. In fact we are already doing it! But... it's called a heat pump, uses freon gases, and huge surface areas to be productive, and some valves, and hundreds of meters of pipes, systems and pumps... and a control module! All that for 1 home and a family of 4.

[@KB4QAA]

Yes, but home heat pumps use electricity and use air as the coolant. Even if you make a better comparison to ground heat pumps, again, they don't work for free using wind. You need gobs of electricity, and large fields of heat exchange pipe, or a large ground water reservoir for cooling.

[@KeyManDan]

Yeah, my post was sarcasm.

[@andrewfeazelle]

Just get a dehumidifier at Walmart and hook it up to three 300w solar panels.

[@Sarefsx]

I heard that idea some where xD

[@ToshAroundMac]

And remember, do NOT drink the water collected from the dehumidifier. It contains all the dust, pollution and spores that stuck to the water condensing on the cooling elements.

[@HybridRaider2]

Did I see them put a dot in the heart of Germany for places where it's dry and arid and no clean water? WTF?

[@Cinqmil]

Yeah, most water in Germany is polluted by Humulus Lupulus and different strains of yeast. It's terrible. Almost no pure water to be found.

[@mrrees7076]

Does this explain the heavy water plant in " the heroes of telemark?

[@donottrustgoogle615]

Okay now THAT is funny. (I had to google it.)

[@theclinger]

There was also one in the motherfucking Pacific Northwest.

[@angrydachshund]

+Synerrox If you take your offense, and add two dollars, you can get a cup of coffee. :)

[@Tpanda85]

I always wonder how these pseudoscience projects start. Is there at least one student who does the math and tells them, hey this mathematically won't work. But then the professor says, that doesn't matter, just run with the concept cause of good intent? It baffles me. It also makes the future of science questionable

[@ozjuanpa]

I haven't even finished high school and I complained to my chemistry teacher when he shown us a History Channel video full of pseudoscience. He said he didn't know what pseudoscience is.

[@BML8384]

+Juan Pablo Ossa Zapata I truly, truly, hope you're kidding.

[@ozjuanpa]

I'm not kidding. It was about cold fusion :I

[@BML8384]

+Juan Pablo Ossa Zapata Then that is truly worrying. Sounds like he doesn't know what teacher training is either.

[@user-oz2pd9ye6z]

I already know how these things start "It won't work" "WHO CARES IF I BELIEVE MYSELF, ILL BE ABLE TO DO IT"

[@elmohead]

LOL they put 4 dots on Papua New Guinea, which is a rainforest. They put about 20 dots on Australia, which is the beef capital of the world (and we all know how much cows drink). Then they have a dot on South korea, which has no problems with clean water. And Malaysia/Singapore, another economic powerhouse in South East Asia. What's that dot in Europe?

[@jamesoleary2476]

Jimmy De'Souza of course. The deserts of Germany are famous for their harshness.

[@Krrypton]

There's a second dot in Europe. In Spain, another well-known desert country that's usually slightly more arid than the Gobi at noon. Oh, and arguably a third dot, though it isn't very clear whether this one is on the European or the Asian side of Turkey. Either way, right next to the Black Sea, possibly over the Bosphorus Strait.

[@thecrusts9748]

There are places in Australia where it would probably help (you know, assuming it will work, which it clearly won't). Like it's a big place.

[@elmohead]

The Crusts yeah we stay away from the middle.

[@TheScabbage]

So after Fontus, Kickstarter backers still fell for this? Shit, I'll make a video of a 3d concept model and add a couple of soppy statistics for 180k.

[@Bull_10RR]

Scabbage and mention that if they build enough it will suck down all the air and the africans will suffocate

[@jonsmith4677]

Suffocation will eliminate the problem of their lack of water. It's a win win.

[@gownerjones2]

Look at who it is with the top comment. Nice to see you again mate :)

[@TheScabbage]

HOLyPumpgun | Gaming Duuudddee how do we keep meeting up?!? It's like our video interests coinciding this much are statistically impossible lol

[@gownerjones2]

Scabbage Not just our video interests but then every single time one of us is in the comments and the other sees it. If I believed in fate, I'd say it's that.

[@amber7591]

I saw a friend post this on fb a week or so ago and I've been waiting for your video on it lol

[@JoshGal85]

amber roberts make sure to post this vid on your Facebook so the person who posted can see this and cry.

[@werewolfassassin655]

+Josh Gal Yes, and tag them in it lol

[@Ganjaseed]

+Werewolf Assassin savage

[@24540082]

Werewolf Assassin

[@imnotusingmyrealname4566]

Lindybeige brought me here.

[@bigidiotdumbstupidguy9329]

I'm not alone!

[@silviachristandl5874]

Same here

[@mrmoth26]

Me too.

[@richardsanchez9190]

How?

[@Lh0000]

Who?

[@surrealwakening]

Quick suggestion: While the bad science 'BUSTED series' is quite entertaining and insightful, why don't you also make one about actual groundbreaking new technologies? It'd be cool to hear your input on stuff like CRISPR. Cheers.

[@markomus1]

Exactly! "This will never work and I use words like kJ and give all my numbers in the metric system to bolster my claims by giving the illusion I know what I'm talking about so I therefore can mock whomever I want" is nice and all (I guess), but the author needs to MAKE SOME VIABLE SUGGESTIONS, right? Otherwise he's not a part of the solution.

[@kyle857]

markomus Keeping people from believing bullshit is part of the solution. A big part.

[@markomus1]

It's a flaccid endeavor, though, at best, without actually offering something of substance to replace it. Otherwise people don't learn anything except how to criticize. Anyone can do that, so I wouldn't say "big" part. At best, it's a nice try and good exercise in learning. But the big part is coming up with creative solutions. And the only way to do that is to follow Thomas Edison's path (and others like him). He discovered many ways how NOT to make a light bulb. He had many calculations that were dead wrong. The same could be said for the WaterSeer. The technology for it is surely at a very awkward and impractical stage, but that doesn't mean that in the future we might not discover or invent materials that meet the requirements to fulfill this dream. I'm not saying these guys aren't scammers, either. I'm just saying let's not kill an idea outright just because Tf did a bunch of HELPFUL calculations to challenge the standing models

[@chezeus1672]

+markomus did you actually watch the video? the basic priciple of the light bulb is to use external electricity to heat up some kind of wire to the point where it glows. the basic principle of the waterseer is a dehumidifier using some cool spot underground. basically reversed sweating. in other words, you heat up the place you use to cool down your water. this means you need an external power source to keep it cold. dehumidifiers exist, and they use the most versatile power sources known to man, electricity. he doesn't have to invent a way to provide unlimited water to show this idiocy can't work. we didn't need the wright brothers to show you can't fly by flapping your arms.

[@markomus1]

The point must have been a little beyond you, so here's the explanation. You see, in life there are two types of criticism. Are you following me here? Try to follow along so you don't get lost. There are two types of criticism. One is destructive criticism. Destructive criticism--are you following?--destructive criticism destroys something. Now this is important, so please put on your attention cap: ~ahem~ DESTRUCTIVE CRITICISM IS VALID. OK? Did you read that? Please read it again. Go ahead; I'll wait. Come back to this spot (O) when you're done. OK...now that you understand that DESTRUCTIVE CRITICISM IS VALID. Let's take a look at CONstructive criticism. Can you say, "constructive criticism?" I knew you could. Constructive criticism is the other side of destructive criticism. Those who destroy should also take the time to build. All one need do is make a few helpful suggestions as to what kinds of further developments could come about in the future if this path is followed. In other words, Tf RIGHTLY points out that THIS emanation of the WaterSeer is doomed. It'll go NO WHERE. But he isn't helpful in pointing out how something of this nature might work because he's not involved with finding solutions; just destroying anything that goes against the status quo (I guess? I don't pretend to know his true intentions). So let's take a look at what you said. You said, "he [sic] doesn't have to invent a way to provide unlimited water to show...." Now hold on a minute. Are you being fair? Clearly not! For I never said nor implied that he had to invent anything. These were MY words. ~ahem~ "the author needs to MAKE SOME VIABLE SUGGESTIONS...." Can you spot the subtle difference? I knew you could. Your cute, inventive little statement that you don't need the Wright brothers to show you can't fly by flapping your arms is also a bit of a dull knife, for that wasn't my point at all now, was it? No, it wasn't. And so I think you are now more enlightened and it's time for me to go. Goodbye, now. Goodbye. Please don't reply anymore. You're already welcome.

[@MrJohnybirchall]

You and your western science.You’re not thinking about it in a decolonised perspective.

[@luc9450]

MrJohnybirchall lol

[@luc9450]

MrJohnybirchall imma call aki ma vodoo god man

[@TheBonkINC]

MrJohnybirchall yeah, witch doctors from the Wabotu village are already working on calling storms to specific areas. If only Western culture would dismantle science and allow us decolonize our minds.

[@ksthebest]

*you're. Sorry, your comment is hilarious and spot-on, I just can't help myself.

[@MrBDF2000]

Think how much power you could generate by harvesting lightning bolts from witch doctors though.

[@ndelliott138]

Just got my Popular Science today. Has an article praising this thing. I unsubscribed.

[@nikhil-kulkarni]

Unsubscribed what? The magazine or this youtube channel?

[@scottishbeverage6269]

and those don't work when its dry.

[@alluviumboar]

Hello There, who cares?

[@Luigicat11]

Who cares? Why are you saying "Hello There" to yourself?

[@Luigicat11]

Michael Remington 1. I was being a smartass and pointing out that because he had the username "Who Cares?" and was replying to a guy with the username "Hello There" asking "Who cares?", it sounded like he was saying "Hello there." to himself. 2. Says the fuckwit who can't tell contractional "you're" from possessive "your".

[@xADDxDaDealer]

Your death sound effect has to be the funniest thing I ever heard.

[@kevinmoore2501]

I appreciate the numbers, logic, and facts given in your videos. I've been watching your vids for a while, and they're very consistent. Thumbs up.

[@IRONMANAustralia]

Why do you have to be so negative?! The heat dissipation problem is easy fixed. Just make the tube longer and drill down to the water table so the bulb has a constant flow of water over it to cool the ... ... fuck.

[@robtoe2]

Nice!

[@dmsdmullins]

Why wouldn't they just dig a well to the water table then? Because in deserts the water table can be THOUSANDS of feet underground. Then you have to pump the water back to the surface. Any idea how much energy that would cost? It would be cheaper to just truck it in.

[@robtoe2]

He was joking.

[@killerfrenchy]

the joke your head

[@potatopalooza6537]

IRONMANAustralia XD

[@gralha_]

I know they are designers, but why would you try to take water from the air where there is no water from the air

[@nathanielholland-pass4618]

DevelopedBear my thoughts exactly

[@npharaoh8675]

DevelopedBear To save the children! We must save the children! Thats why.

[@genericasian5699]

Shenanigans?

[@tach5884]

U ok DevelopedBear?

[@gralha_]

Tach Yes, why do you ask?

[@XaFFaX]

One other thing I do not get about those WaterSeers and SelfFillingBottles(tm) is that even if they worked as advertised you would be drinking distilled water, without any minerals, so it is essentially useless and can hurt your health instead of actually reducing your thirst. I mean try to drink a distilled, industry water you can buy for usage in chemistry and some industry devices (cars is one example). It is as clean as it gets, it also tastes bad and despite it is as clear water as it gets, it will not be good for you. And any water created this way is this exactly - "clean" (in a bad sense), distilled, almost 100% pure H2O. For cleaning, chemistry, industry - this would be fine, for drinking - hell no.

[@awordabout...3061]

I keep trying to work out how these things go wrong before I let Thunderfoot speak, and I've never gotten it right yet. HOPEFULLY the issues with this are insufficient energy for refrigeration of the reservoir, and insufficient water saturation of the air for the machine to work in these countries.

[@awordabout...3061]

I was right! Sort of! Close enough!

[@MrYourfavoritesub]

but what about combining this with solar road ways to make infinite water from the sun?

[@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901]

MrYourfavoritesub you mean plants

[@SloeJuice]

omg fkin genius :D

[@MravacKid]

It can't happen because God promised that he would never drown the Earth again. :D

[@farseerflore9512]

You mean Solar-Freaking-Plants

[@QuartzIsAnOxide]

*Freakin'

[@jakethornton7]

Can I just get a six hour loop of you saying "water"? I need it for reasons.

[@PrincessAquos]

Water you gonna do with that?

[@jakethornton7]

Research.

[@Rurike]

It better not be jack off material

[@Borristhebeaver-xg5eb]

His use of it might be quite LIQUID I suck at puns

[@CruelestChris]

I want a six hour loop of him pronouncing "carbon dioxide" as one syllable.

[@arahndoberman2987]

"Clean safe water in developing countries and in drought stricken and arid regions ..." And their marker is placed in the middle of Germany, basically right where I live. Thus, for a fact I can tell you: A) Not only is Germany the other kind of a “developing country” but also B) your cooling chambers would be flooded by all the rain we have!

[@jarmo_kiiski]

It's astonishing how easily people fall for this shit...

[@Samthebasedman]

And spend money on Indiegogo for inventions that won't work. Now that's astonishing.

[@jarmo_kiiski]

www.indiegogo.com/projects/breathe-world-s-smallest-wearable-air-purifier-technology#/

[@Samthebasedman]

shlev We have to test this with Thunderf00t.

[@TheSpeculatingApe]

We're easy apes to manipulate. I like to think I'm a cynical shopper, but if I see shiny things on sale, I'm likely to buy two of them, especially if the price has been slashed and supplies are limited. Add an emotional appeal to the shiny things, and it's even more powerful.

[@jarmo_kiiski]

sam Yes. This needs to be debunked next.

[@mattroy3154]

I was wondering how thunderfoot would debunk this one because it made sense to me. Now I know the importance of thermodynamics in invention design.

[@mattroy3154]

It's odd, as I grow older I realize that the university crowd isn't all that intelligent as a whole.

[@jamesthatoneguy9516]

+Thelondonbadger I couldn't have said it better. no results = no work, results = work.

[@yaldabaoth2]

American science system is flawed at the core. They learn too much side stuff and neglect the core science. There is a reason why all US universities are always actively searching for foreign PhD students or post-doc researchers in basically all sciences. Even the bottom percentile of Europe's or China/Korea/Japan's universities are better than all but top 1% of american students.

[@jamesthatoneguy9516]

+Yaldabaoth that's a bit extreme. if anything I would say that its the top 20% of americans ( in STEM programs) are competitive in the world market (in their given field).

[@Meninx87]

but could it work on tatooine tho?

[@Thehairysoap]

underrated comment up here.

[@TheOldMan-75]

Why would you want to give clean water to such a wretched hive of scum and villainy?

[@farseerflore9512]

No, but it would work on Hoth.

[@boatknight2246]

Hey man Mos Eisley was the wretched hive of scum and villainy, I shouldn't have to tell you that Hard working and industrious Moisture farmers live on Tatooine! wait we should ask them how they farm their moisture!!

[@TheGwarGaru]

I think we all know what happens to moisture farmers... vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/d/d7/Owen-Beru-burned.png/revision/latest?cb=20160121043333

[@jacoblance5747]

Don't forget the fact that you hasve to dig a fucking hole to put it in. Imagine pulling up to a bunch of thirsty people, telling them to dig a 2 meter hole for what is effectively a wind powered magic well, and then it just not working.

[@PutItAway101]

That baked-hard ground can't be easy to dig through either

[@cr0w-qz277]

justy get them to dig it 10 meters deeper for my new invention, the "water-puller-upper-ona ba bucket with rope and a pulley seer"

[@tjpld]

10:20 lol they suggest putting a Waterseer in the middle of Germany.

[@schwarzerritter5724]

It looks more like the Czech Republik. To be fair, the country has a water quality of only 98% and is moist enough for a condenser to work. It would still accomplish nothing though.

[@tybofborg]

*Czechia

[@zakhoskins6404]

Won't work there; Jew point is too low.

[@mathis8210]

Lets put waterseers right into rivers!

[@OttoVonGarfield]

I don't know, Germany isn't all that good at keeping gases in non-gas states.

[@junkbot2.1]

Thunderf00t you have to decolonize your mind then come back and remake this video

[@echafaud]

hey man , thanks for taking that very needed swing at the US education system...I know It's all business and advertisement, but when "world's top" universities (with ~40k semester fees) start screwing up like that it's not funny anymore.

[@vampyricon7026]

I'd add a like but it's at 42

[@coffeeexmachina]

My first thought was the dust in the air being blown through it. During my deployment to Kuwait, the air was so completely saturated with fine dust particles that a small electric desk fan in our tent had to be taken apart and cleaned once or twice every day (when we used it). The dust buildup was so thick inside the motor that it would simply stop moving. Pumping similar air down a damp hole would probably only result in mud.

[@SpartanJoe193]

Not to mention the microbes.

[@brucecampbellschin8632]

Wouldn't building wells be more effective?

[@WilmoTheBear]

Or just y'know, use one of them handcrank ones?

[@GaryDean]

not always possible. many locations on earth do not have accessible ground water.

[@MarcScholtemeijer]

Why settle in these areas in the first place?

[@wontuserealname8918]

People have settled far less hospitable areas. Iceland for example has no arable land and no navigable rivers yet people seem to be doing just fine.

[@wontuserealname8918]

How deep would these wells be. I'm guessing the problem here is that the water table fell (or has always been very low).

[@LiamE69]

Its easy to dissipate that amount of heat. Just put the end of the waterseer in a stream. Oh hold on a sec...

[@knutove626]

Well executed.

[@irek1394]

wouldnt this water be toxic as distilled water is?

[@paulcoddington664]

It won't be as clean as distilled water - bound to be full of dust and bugs, probably build up a layer of mud at the bottom over time.

[@LiamE69]

I'm not sure they have considered the potential for homeopathy overdose.

[@irek1394]

yeah you are probably right i didnt put much thought into it :P

[@rodjackson9725]

About 20 years ago I read a couple of sci fi novels about "terraforming" Mars. The author suggested that wind powered blades could be dropped all over the surface of Mars. And that these little machines could heat a filament that would heat the atmosphere. And maybe that then the atmosphere could sustain by way of resultant increase of vegetation, water vapour, methane etc. The problem is of course that any wind on Mars already transfers to heat by way of friction over the surface of Mars. Seeding the surface of Mars with wind powered heat generators will make no difference.

[@AmaroqStarwind]

I think you could solve the heat gradient problem with a diode heat-pipe, some capillary action (assisted by wettability gradient) , and a bit of convection (assisted by one-way nozzles/valves). And you can probably solve the humidity problem with a special membrane that concentrates certain components of the air. Efficiency could be improved by using a simple freewheel and motor-generator-unit on the turbine. (Yeah, suddenly electricity becomes necessary... No problem! External power could also be utilized.) And I guess some kind of peltiér system could be used to forcefully transfer heat. Yeah, it is still a fool’s errand.

[@shanent5793]

Didn't Luke Skywalker's family use these things on Tatooine?

[@tuomashirvonen8473]

Shane NT THUNDERFOOT WAS WRONG

[@Araanor]

Shane NT yea but that was a long time ago.

[@scumcreep]

Araanor and far, far away.

[@GeorgeMonet]

On a planet where it never rained. Where it would be more efficient to just bombard the planet with water containing asteroids or I don't know, move to a planet with more accessible water?

[@echomjp]

Dude, I'm sure that a setting with magical space magic and faster than light travel and stuff could easily allow people to collect water out of thin air.

[@seanb3516]

The best design I have seen for providing safe drinking water to people in undeveloped parts of the world was a simple kit that contained water treatment tablets, flocculant, and panty hose. Now that's the way it's done folks!

[@HarryBalzak]

Also, the Bicycle-powered Water Pump Purifier has a lot more promise. It filters water and provides a much more efficient way to transport it, and at the same time!* *the information is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. Harry Balzak does not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this comment.

[@jennoscura2381]

+Harry Balzak That bike powered pump is called the Aquaduct. It's also flawed. Not because it wont do what they say. But because they don't take into account the people who are going to be using it. You need to work WITH the people rather than imposing your fancy pants 1st world crap on them. The gadget doesn't use standard bike parts. So what happens when it breaks down? What kind of filters does it use and are they easy to replace? A bike and trailer setup for transporting water and solar still for purification would be better. Especially if you showed people how to build those from local parts instead of just giving them a handout.

[@Frosty14748]

TeleTrans 1 He was making a joke about it, as seen here: Also, the Bicycle-powered Water Pump Purifier has a lot more promise. It filters water and provides a much more efficient way to transport it, and at the same time!* *the information is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. Harry Balzak does not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this comment.

[@KnakuanaRka]

Sean Nanoman KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid!

[@RenThraysk]

Yeah, Proctor and Gamble's Purifier of Water is an all in one disinfectant and flocculant.

[@ironclad7768]

Love the white colored silhouettes of people who look like they have a clearly Black African craneofacial structure and seemingly curly hair. Very sneaky.

[@ironclad7768]

Also: why is it a woman carrying the water with a child in toe? Where are the men?

[@marks6663]

throwing spears at lions.

[@HalfManThirdBiscuit]

Vaping and sitting on pavements, watching the traffic. Frowning a lot.

[@Horny_Fruit_Flies]

+Ironclad I think you're looking a tad too deep into this.

[@elidrissii]

Thank you armchair anthropologist for clarifying the race of those fictitious cartoons.

[@NuclearWinterMan]

27:00 "Amused. Someone is fond of lily pads." -Glitch, Starbound

[@TheSateef]

i would only take a few days to build one, dig a hole and find out it doesn't work. hasn't anyone tried that?

[@spookypen]

That would stop the woo woo bullshit money making machine though, there's just too much money to be made in bullshit to let that pesky science get in the way.

[@wraithgear4216]

Obviously not the company making the water-seer. as they use CG to illustrate their point.

[@InfernosReaper]

Ah, but they can totally get a thing that will produce water, via morning condensation(or even possibly lawn sprinklers) in an area without serious water problems.

[@jimstanley_49]

But you don't need to see it work, you just need the money. If any even get built, donators get their smug sense of "caring about the world" when the snake oil is on the ship to the third world. Nobody (who "matters") has to see it not work when it gets there.

[@InfernosReaper]

Worst part is people who get one & don't know better will be in for a world of disappointment. It's really cruel. Good thing they'll probably either get actors or just set one up, not tell people what it's for, & use fake subtitles that talk about how great it is rather than tell use what they're really saying

[@terryfuldsgaming7995]

don't forget how nasty of a filthy cesspool that storage tank will be after a few years. I mean it's open to the air by design!

[@buniesinfernal7979]

that water will have bacteria in it within a week and be toxic withing a month, aka why they need water treatment plant not water condensers

[@googleeatsdicks]

In theory you could use a copper tank against the filth. But hey, no water means no dirty water.

[@RichardKincses]

Not to mention if you want it to have good airflow you cant put protection on it from bugs. Now imagine how many bugs fill in that shit when they sense water inside.

[@Zozo806]

Kincses Richárd than its free protein water

[@ericjohnson2024]

How would they keep bacteria or mold from growing inside the bulb? It's dark and supposed to be wet, seems like a perfect breeding ground for the things that make water unpottable to begin with.

[@RockerMarcee96]

Eric Johnson also anaerobic

[@canuzzi]

dark is good.

[@KnakuanaRka]

Eric Johnson True; the problem is making the water drinkable, not finding it in the first place.

[@wolf1066]

Camped out in a cave for the night once, a stable 4 degrees celsius (it was a pretty deep cave). Outside the mouth of the cave: -6 degree frost! Apparently, that happens in winter time.

[@MGTV1]

who lists immigrant as one of their qualifications?....let alone the first thing they list?......my god...virtue signal much?

[@MGTV1]

the dude from sutardja center building imaginary little word boxes with his hands while he speaks was distracting from the fact he was basically saying they were doing busy work to keep themselves occupied....

[@MGTV1]

its like he was doing sign language of his abstract ideas for the hearing impaired, so they wouldn't lip read his gibberish....

[@MGTV1]

omg then the guy from berkley does the exact same thing.....i'm done.

[@Tatsh2DX]

Sutardja center.. in my America?

[@yaldabaoth2]

He's an immigrant and a patriot. Fled one country to love another. Aka traitor.

[@FrankLightheart]

I love that you're not just debunking religious claims, but also challenging bad science. Keep it up!

[@laus7504]

I thought Religion and Science were two separate things. Oh wait! You must have recently become an atheist! How cute!

[@FrankLightheart]

Maxx Kroes Well, I'm making a distinction between an institutionalized perpetuation of mythological stories and simply unscientific inventions that've gained popular support.

[@FrankLightheart]

***** Who... said that religion and science were NOT two different things? I certainly didn't say that.

[@ToshAroundMac]

There was no science involved in the WaterSeer. Even the name itself is an appeal to magic.

[@FrankLightheart]

ToshAroundMac It's based off bad science, sure, but that doesn't make it a religion. As I explained to Maxx already, the WaterSeer is simply an unscientific invention that's gained popular support. It's a scam in the same vein as the snake oil salesmen of the Western era. They're there to take the money and run. Religion is different. It's institutionalized. It's got a set of rules and rituals to follow. It forms a community and curbs behavior. It involves stories of gods and magic and fictional history. I can't believe I have to explain this. I realize there's some overlap, but the difference between a religion and a crappy invention that preys on people's scientific illiteracy should be pretty obvious.

[@bearlyrandom4462]

You would think that after 40,000 years of living in the desert the bushman would have come up with this, i mean it's so genius.

[@DaedalEVE]

They did come up with it... It's called an "air well". Google it.

[@gigantkranion]

Googling air wells shows that it has failed.

[@DaedalEVE]

gigantkranion Try harder. It works, however it is not very efficient. It will produce water, it's simply not a 100% reliable source of water for large population groups (which is why you don't see more of it). So my suggestion is to do actual research and not rely on some wikipedia article. The sad thing is that idiots like yourself end up reinforcing the cognitive bias of other idiots.

[@gigantkranion]

Kinda hard to be an idiot when I was only following direction. Hmm. I wonder who was the idiot who told me to google it in the first place. . .

[@DaedalEVE]

gigantkranion Fine, I'm a horrible person who deserves to die...

[@burgerkingceonamejeff6909]

six sigma black belt at your front door got me deadddddddd

[@stabilisedchaos]

Thunderf00t you forgot the magic ingredient,they said that if you pray every night GOD will turn it into water!

[@TheOldMan-75]

You spelled Nestle wrong.

[@izmirwayyn5625]

Naah they will just steal it :D

[@jurgenrembold8379]

I thought God was more into wine.... and blood

[@OttoVonGarfield]

No, patrick will PUSH THE WATER SOMEWHERE ELSE to your collector.

[@LuxiBelle]

And then Jesus will turn the water into wine.

[@heshlaw56ify]

I went to Rose Hulman and have a bachelor's in mechanical engineering and I think this is hilarious and disturbing that this is coming out of Berkeley. I have a friend at work who went to Berkeley I'm going to have to show him this.

[@MrBDF2000]

Ohio State grad in mechanical engineering here, I would bet most freshmen coming out of their thermo 101 course could do a similar debunking. My bet is that this spawned out of some student's lazy semester-end project, and someone best friend from business school got way too excited after hearing about it.

[@a1919akelbo]

BDF there prob isn't any engineers on this team, this is the making of a marketing class

[@scottlarsen466]

..I spoke to one of the UC Berkeley guys. They got Hoodwinked by Don over at Vici-labs. They had no long term time frame in the specification and did not know Vici-labs was going to commercialize the design. UC Berkeley thought is was just a friendly contest to see who could generate 3.7 liters in the shortest time. They didn't know it would be extrapolated by Vici-labs into a commercial 24/7, 12 month a year product, with crowd funding.

[@Sirenhound]

So Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru have just been running a front for an illegal blue milk racket? That explains why they were raided by the Empire! Luke can stop beating himself up over it, he's off the hook!

[@gemfyre855]

Reminds me of that trick you learn in scouts where you dig a big hole, put leaves in the bottom and plastic over the top with a rock in the middle so the condensed water drips into a can under the stone. You might make a cm or 2 of water in the can by morning if you're lucky.

[@CappuccinoSquid]

So, kind of like a solar powered flashlight...on the dark side of the moon.

[@pyramear5414]

Gypsy Squid The dark side of the moon isn't actually dark though. It gets roughly the same amount of sun as the "bright" (earth facing) side of the moon.

[@nathanaelraynard2641]

Stewart Smith its a joke

[@nathanaelraynard2641]

Stewart Smith i think

[@cosmic-fortytwo]

Not sure why one would need a solar powered flashlight, because it's already daytime when it works. Like dehydrated water, just add water. Lol

[@arksin11]

because if you add a battery that can store energy, you can use the flashlight at night.

[@FenWolf68]

Heres an idea: Move your village closer to the water source. And try not to p*ss and sh*t in it, hey.

[@paulol7224]

Jon Blake im not sure people can *move* villages

[@FenWolf68]

Guy, the people these emotive appeals refer to, live in a loose collection of mud huts with straw roofs. That's their own imagery. How long would it take to build a new mud hut closer to the water? And if not on a 'village' scale, how about an individual or family sized one? Have None of them got the goddamn common sense to do that? Spare me.

[@Ze_Bee4828]

Im not sure how people can move boxes

[@FenWolf68]

Seriously?

[@Ze_Bee4828]

Jon Blake Oh im sorry let me rephrase that. Im not sure how people can move mansions

[@ShishKerBabS]

If its that simple, It wouldve been done AGES AGO.

[@Tatsh2DX]

Shish K aeons ago!

[@OttoVonGarfield]

There's a rule of life, if you've thought of an idea that sounds genius and you wonder why nobody has done it yet, there is more than probably several very good reasons why it hasn't been done yet.

[@Hirome_Satou]

With logic like that, the wheel should have been invented thousands of years before it was.

[@totalermist]

+Joshua Dunbar what brings you to that conclusion? The wheel, after all, has no biological equivalent in nature and could thus not simply be emulated by people. The Archimedes Screw, gears and pipes on the other hand have been around since antiquity (and have been used in various ways to try and achieve perpetual motion and other impossible things). So...

[@Hirome_Satou]

totalermist You mean to tell me you've never seen a tree rolling?

[@aquapuppy9838]

August is a maybe in Albuquerque for the water seer? Jokes on them, it's constant thunder showers that month. You're better off setting some rain barrels out.

[@bbgun061]

UC Berkeley doesn't care if it's possible. They care about getting grants.

[@Ryusuta]

I'm really appreciative of the work you do to put out educational material like this, Thunderf00t. I really enjoy your ability to observe new ideas with a critical - and fair - mind. I know you do a lot of things outside of KZbin, so it makes the work of someone like you that much more valuable as a form of entertainment and education to people such as myself. Thank you.

[@Applest2oApples]

I don't understand these kickstarter websites... When are they going to be held accountable? A couple students put a bucket with some copper tubes outside, then next thing you know they are scamming 180k online with absolutely no proof of concept? This is actually criminal.

[@GGigabiteM]

There's one place that matches most of your requirements listed around the 20:00 min mark: - High relative humidity (60-90%) - Hot (80-110F) - Little/no rain (we were in an awful drought for 5-6 years which ended about a year or two ago) - Constant consistent amount of wind (gulf coast wind is 10-30 mph most days) This describes central Texas perfectly 8-9 months out of the year. Not that I believe this specific device would work because it's a shit design. A better proven idea would be to run dehumidifiers or ammonia chillers and collect the condensation from them. Sure it wouldn't be cheap or efficient, but it would work. I have an A/C unit in the garage that can pull about a gallon of water out of the air per hour (I've measured it), and the whole house HVAC dumps enough water out the drain pipe to keep one side of the house in near swamp conditions most days.

[@Zarzunabas1]

I laughed my ass off wheni saw the poster they give out for contributors and noticed that thedepicted woman has reversed hands. Thermodynamics? How about we learn the difference between left and right first.

[@KnakuanaRka]

At 22:43? To be fair, that’s more the fault of the artist, but yeah, doesn’t look good on them.

[@simplelife88393]

Saw this shit on facebook the other day, knew immediately it was a scam

[@rationalmartian]

Exactly. It just seems to fire off the bullshit'ometer straight away, before one starts to even really seriously think about it. Kind of sad that whole engineering departments apparently cannot do this. I appears our engineering is going all to holee fuck too. SMFH.

[@skaruts]

You don't even need to know science. You just need to be aware of what an Appeal To Emotion is while reading the presentation. :)

[@honestreviews8048]

skaruts That's fallacious m8. I could have a perfectly reasonable and true cause, but use emotional appeal to further the effectiveness of my persuasion

[@skaruts]

Leh Dank Ones You could. Except that in your spontaneity your appeal would sound naturally honest. If your cause was real and demonstrable, your narrative wouldn't be appealing to emotion but, spontaneously, to comprehension and sympathy. I'm not sure how to put this, but there are actual observable differences between honesty and dishonesty in narratives. One of them is that dishonest narratives are usually shallow in certain key details that would otherwise be naturally deeper. Most people seem to not be very coherent sophists. There's also a fundamental difference in attitude between those who can somehow observably demonstrate what they're saying, and those who can't. You can observe this if you examine the cons (from their narrative to their attitude, and everything in between) and compare them to people you know are being honest. As my mother used to say, you catch a liar faster than a limping man. :)

[@gavsmith1980]

skaruts People use appeals to emotions all the time for charity commercials, it says precisely zero about whether or not it's a worthwhile venture.

[@Lectar117]

Thunderf00t these are ,your best type of videos

[@prakashparajuli3003]

Thanks for your effort to make this video. And sharing how few people can fool a large number of people on a global scale. I have been working on development of humanitarian solutions for a decade and I think and have realized there are already so many "con" products/concepts/designs/ideas. Many of these have been awarded as best designs in design awards too. A good solution would be a combination of good design, art and engineering but i don't know what kind of people are the juries who select and promote this type of fake ideas. My experience- I have participated in some design awards and have presented my designs as working prototypes and detailed analyses. I have seen that the "lame" jury members would select fake ideas which are just well animated, polished or rendered and will never function as claimed. I would check profiles of the Jury members and feel pity for them. It's a big shame and it hurts solvers who really care for the earth, environment and people. Really a mad world but you can do nothing...lol.

[@feeblezak]

These con-artists should all be imprisoned. The media should not be giving attention to con-artists and liars.

[@StefanReich]

Because prison makes life so much better!

[@polpottopg]

Stupidest comment

[@sulijoo]

A lorry full of water-sterilisation tablets would do more than this crappy thing ever will. Gotta love how snotty students in their cushy colleges like inventing solutions to problems that don't exist because, hey, it's easier than actually solving a problem that does, isn't it.

[@Bull_10RR]

Maxx Kroes this comment made me laugh

[@artifactingreality]

Well what do you expect. These kids want to stay at the back of the bus. They are total pussies.

[@KnakuanaRka]

sulijoo Make that a lorry of sterilization tablets and filters.

[@MsJavaWolf]

Can you not drink almost all water, after boiling it?

[@timmoree3356]

The thing about snotty students is that they all feel the need to be important; they need to contribute something with a value equal to or greater than the amount they spent on tuition. Mostly, it doesn't matter if their idea doesn't work in the end, they'll just shrug it off and go to the next project. I'm more surprised at the professors and administrators backing this preposterous (albeit optimistic) idea.

[@Jasa12265]

Instead of spending hours walking to water and back, why not just move next to the water?

[@DergZaks]

Jarrod problem fucking solved or beter idea move from desert to sawanna or rainforests

[@DeMoraJS]

GGPL, rainforests? When they do that the Europeans don't like it

[@andrewdevine3920]

Jarrod The water would pack up and move somewhere else. Water is racist.

[@jasonbrown4526]

That's a really good question.

[@charlottewalnut3118]

R. DeMora To be fair of these people are near worthless so yeah we probably shouldn’t want them anywhere near where they can destroy a bunch of possibly valuable medicine

[@petere7197]

Thank you for taking the time and effort to do this. I cannot express how disappointed I am that engineering students at a supposedly good university can endorse this BS, without any critical examination of the termodynyamics. And do not even get me started on the VAWT and how it would not even work at wind speeds less that about 10 mph.

[@helenkholmogorova-landroot8717]

Hey, what if the helicopter part is also getting wind energy, which is used to power a hotplate under the blades and a refrigeration unit in the bulb, so the wind goes through the hotplate, heats up, and then heads into the bulb, where a refrigeration unit cools it down drasticaly, making water come out? I think this re-design might just work, if stationed near a large body of water, like a lake or a river. there's always wind in such places, and the water carries over in it!

[@BenSal891]

It would not generate nearly enough power to heat up a "hot plate" and run a refrigeration unit.

[@BenSal891]

And it defeats the entire point of this thing being cheap to build and maintain.

[@someone5989]

I really hope that this is a joke? Since you know... Moving it near a lake or river kind of defeats the entire point why you are placing it in the first place?

[@frankryan2505]

oh yeah..I'll contribute to that kickstarter..I'm guessing it only works near fresh water too?great!

[@helenkholmogorova-landroot8717]

lol the fact that some of you thought i wasn't joking is pretty sad... and gives me lots of commercially viable ideas for crowdfunding xDDD

[@KingCrocoduck]

This sounds like a lot of hot air