Google releases open sources solar atmospheric water generator

• h2e_technical_documentation

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A lot of people bringing up the thunderfoot video without realizing that this is... a completely different device. This is not solar-electric for one, it's direct solar heat. There's no peltier elements or anything like that, it uses ground temperature to provide the cold side of the dehumidifier. It does have a small electric motor and circulating fan, but that does not require very much power at all.

It's a largely passive device and not really comparable to the solar electric designs.

I wish people would use their own brain instead of just parroting whatever thunderfoot says. Maybe the problem is that people aren't finding the actual overview PDF? https://github.com/google/h2e_technical_documentation/blob/m...

• makani

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  Discontinued Makani was a project to develop a commercial-scale airborne wind turbine, culminating in a flight test of the Makani M600 off the coast of Norway. All Makani software has now been open-sourced. This repository contains the working Makani flight simulator, controller (autopilot), visualizer, and command center flight monitoring tools. Additionally, almost all avionics firmware is also included, albeit potentially not in a buildable state, due to the removal of some third-party proprietary code. W

  

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