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Frank Herbert's Moisture Traps May Be a Reality

Posted by kdawson on from the it's-a-dry-heat dept.

Omomyid writes "In the seminal science fiction book 'Dune,' Frank Herbert envisioned the Fremen collecting water from the air via moisture traps and dew collectors. Science Daily reprints a press release from the Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart, where scientists working with colleagues from Logos Innovationen have developed a closed-loop and self-sustaining method, no external power required, for teasing the humidity out of desert air and into potable water."

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  1. Re:First Post by Omestes · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Did you just copy that from /b/?

    Good for you, except it isn't trolling /., its still trolling /b/ except now where no one from /b/ will ever read it. I'm pretty sure all their trolls are scripted by now, and generally are at least amusing, or... you know... someone in the flavor of trolling the average /. user.

    I'd personally take the "did you hear about the singularity" guy, or the iPhone rectal stimulation guy, it at least is somewhat in the scope of /.

    If your going to troll, please put some EFFORT into it.

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  2. Re:In the seminal science fiction book 'Dune by thoglette · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Air France Flight 447?

    See the .sig

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