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EPISODE · Jul 17, 2025 · 12 MIN

This Google Device Could End Water Scarcity Forever (Here's Why It Won't)

from (don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World · host Antoine Walter

What if Google had the solution to save 1 billion people... and just threw it away? Let's find out! Google spent 4 YEARS secretly developing a device that pulls safe drinking water from thin air using only sunlight. They proved it worked. They proved it could help over 1 BILLION people without clean water. Then they just... quit and open-sourced everything in 2021. 😅 Meanwhile, billionaires like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg poured millions into competing startups trying to solve the same problem, with no better results. What made Google's own engineers walk away from technology that could change the world? As #TeamWater is about to make its comeback, there's a lot to learn here! 🙌 Supporters 🙌 A big thank you to my partner SimpleLab: https://link.dww.show/simplelab And a great shout-out to Blue Foot Membranes: https://link.dww.show/bluefoot #️⃣ All the Links Mentioned in this Video #️⃣ The Google H2E Collection: https://x.company/collection/h2e/ Google's open-sourced geo layers: https://github.com/AWH-GlobalPotential-X/AWH-Geo?tab=readme-ov-file Google's open-sourced CAD drawings: https://github.com/google/h2e_technical_documentation/tree/main The Google X Team's Nature Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03900-w.pdf The thermodynamics of Atmospheric Water Generation: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10293683/#:~:text=Inserting%20the%20constants%20from%20Appendix,heat%20pumps%20and%20heat%20engines Science's recent article on the topic: https://www.science.org/content/article/devices-pull-water-out-thin-air-poised-take My interview with Colin Goddard: https://smartlink.ausha.co/dont-waste-water/s7e2-expensive-heavy-but-desperately-needed-is-source-the-future-of-drinking-water 👋 SOCIAL MEDIA 👋 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoinewalter1/Subscribe to my newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=6884833968848474112 ⏰ TIME CODES ⏰ 00:00 Google's forgotten device 01:01 Clean Water: A Moonshot Challenge? 02:21 Google H2E 04:35 Missing the Target (by 10x) 05:45 Open-Sourcing 07:05 More competition? 08:30 The Main Problem 10:31 Giving Up?Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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