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  • JustAnotherPodunk@lemmy.worldtoSolarpunk technology@slrpnk.net•‘Reimagining matter’: Nobel laureate invents machine that harvests water from dry air
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    2 months ago

    I know as much as you do about it. All that either of us know is what we directly read in the article. And it has a clear bias and motive imo.

    I never said they shouldn’t seek funding. I’m calling out the article for being an obvious vehicle to solicit funding. They already published it. I don’t opposed that. I oppose the method and hype train mentality exhibited.

    It’s true, the idea isn’t utterly original, but I don’t think it’s meritless. But I’m not going to read into something like this article and fantasize this contraption as the ultimate solution to water scarcity in deficient locals.

    Please don’t mistake my skepticism for willful ignorance. But please do get off of your high horse

  • JustAnotherPodunk@lemmy.worldtoSolarpunk technology@slrpnk.net•‘Reimagining matter’: Nobel laureate invents machine that harvests water from dry air
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    2 months ago

    Nope. I havent. Never put any effort into it. But I do know a fluff piece when I see one. My point was, this isn’t revolutionary tech. And it’s not being rolled out all over the place either. They built it and rolled it out onto a Caribbean island. Is it actually scalable? Is it practical? We don’t know. What I see is that it’s part of a campaign piece to solicit funding. Fairly obviously too.

    This is just building a better mousetrap. Sure, some good can come from it. I hope it does. But I’m not going to prop up every article that doesn’t pass the sniff test. Cancer already would have been cured a thousand times over if you were to believe every article promising that “this is the fix we’ve been waiting for”