In a previous post, I had stated how stupid it was to say that carbon offsets can fight global warming when the presence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is extremely small while the presence of water vapor is extremely high. According to that logic, it would be necessary for people to instead seek out water vapor offsets. As of recently there had been absolutely no practical way to offset the water vapor that is put into the air through evaporation. The closest thing there has ever been to removing water from the sky was a practice called “seeding” the clouds, but this was just some dust bowl era gimmick to swindle money from desperate farmers.Recently, a pair of researchers developed a relatively efficient way to condense water vapor back into liquid form. Their invention is called the WatAir fresh water system, and this 10 foot wide inverted pyramid shaped funnel can remove dozens of liters of vaporized water from the atmosphere everyday. It is an ingenious invention that utilizes the natural tendency of water vapor to condense when it reaches a temperature referred to as the dew point. And what’s funny is, these people don’t give a rats butt about global warming. They designed this as a way to bring fresh water to underdeveloped countries. The secondary use of the WatAir for reducing the most abundant greenhouse gas from the atmosphere has not even been realized yet, and probably never will because politicians aren’t being paid by special interest groups to push for water vapor offsets.
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