Automatic vehicle water collection/purifier system

[no_zed_is_safe]

Basically something made out of a funnel, water purifier and some sheet metal you ould slap on to your vehicle. During rain, you could activate it to have it auto-purify rainwater and send it to the vehicle’s water tank (maybe make it automatically shut down once the tank is full). Obviously it would drain some vehicle battery power.

Thoughts?

[KA101]

Been considered before; in practice the collection rate might be a bit slow but including the purifier makes it not completely out of the question.

[no_zed_is_safe]

I’ll take a slow collection rate over the tedious chore of hauling and boiling water, personally.

[Valpo]

well i use the foodco to purify the contains of a steel barrel in one go and dump the whole stuff into the vehicles watertank eZ . Interesting idea anyway.

[Coolthulhu]

I have a vehicle liquid tank system rework waiting for 0.C to come out.

Once it’s in, writing a continuous purifier (ie. one that takes 1 unit of “water” and outputs 1 unit of “clean water” every x turns) would be really easy.

Or someone can just hack in a temporary solution: a purifier+funnel combo that is placed on the roof.

[dRbiG]

Had exactly this same idea last year. I even wanted it to be my first CDDA code contribution… but looking how funnel was actually an item+trap+abstract_code_in_the_weather_module I gave up. I still think this kind of contraption is a conceptually a good idea. If the FOODCO can do water purification, I don’t see why a roof funnel couldn’t too.