Timeline for Organism that can produce water on its own (possibly from air?) not requiring a water source. Is it plausible and if how?
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| Aug 5, 2020 at 14:50 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | @Michael it may be inefficient in the sense that you need to eat a multiple of the mass of metabolic water finally produced; but energetically it is not only efficient but even exothermic: It generates energy, like all oxidations. | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 12:56 | comment | added | cmaster - reinstate monica | Camels use this effect to go very long times without water. Sure, they too dehydrate over time because they loose more water to breathing than they generate by burning fat from their humps, but by turning their fat stores into water, their overall water loss is quite slow. | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 12:14 | comment | added | Willk | @nick012000 - poisoning with diesel exhaust, I guess? No waterborne illnesses though! | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 11:10 | comment | added | nick012000 | "I had a scheme for Innocentive about generating water for soldiers in the desert by capturing it from their diesel vehicles. It did not win." Seems like you'd be risking poisoning the soldiers... | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 8:51 | comment | added | Michael | @Kaddath: The water produced by metabolising food is a nice “side effect”, but if your main goal is to produce water it’s very inefficient. | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 7:54 | comment | added | Kaddath | @Michael in the case of burning food, it is explicitly stated that it produces energy, on the contrary.. | |
| Aug 5, 2020 at 5:35 | comment | added | Michael | I think a problem with your answer (and all other current answers) is that they require a lot of energy. | |
| Aug 4, 2020 at 20:13 | comment | added | Random guy | Thank you with helping me with this question! | |
| Aug 4, 2020 at 19:35 | history | answered | Willk | CC BY-SA 4.0 |