So the article does not mention collecting or purifying urine whatsoever, it does not collect perspiration, nor is water purification/reclamation powered by the users movements within the suit.
What they did is strap a dehumidifier (which are quite energy intensive and would require an often recharged battery) into a suit, hook up a camelbak like reservoir to the dehumidifier that pulls water out of the air around you (not how stillsuits work in the books, they collect and process your sweat and piss), additionally putting basically a gas mask on your face to collect moisture from exhaling.
Not impressed. Only part even close to correct is capturing exhaled moisture.
Angry mostly about massively misleading headline grrrrrr
Thank you for sparing me having to read the article and being disappointed. I can now have second hand disappointment and get on with my morning.
Not sure why but drinking the water from my humidifier somehow doesn’t feel right …
Yeah… it is specifically warned against if you bother to read the manuals for dehumidifiers.
Ironically you would have to filter such water before it would be safe.
… and stillsuits are supposed to handle filtration as well.
I’m still mad about the one time they took a bunsen burner, strapped the gas tank to their backs and called it a lightsaber.
And then got a fucking Guinness Record for that!
They didn’t even design the burner, it was preexisting technology
