The numbers may well indicate it's all a forgone conclusion - but there will need to be a number of field studies to generate actual results. Only then can the theoretical predictions be confirmed (or disproved).
There may be some parameter that exists in the real world that the theoretical exercise has not considered.
Before anyone tries to shoot this caveat down in flames, I ask you this.... "How many advances in knowledge came from real world observations that did not fit with the understanding at the time?"
Just to be clear, I can't see this thing producing anywhere near the quantity of water they are spruiking, but I would like some long-term field study results before bringing along the coffin nails.
Datas and research costs a lot of money and resources. The problem with waterseer is that they didn't even borthered to make some basic calculation! And, this thing don't EVEN work with theoretical datas! Want to try to make field result with something not working? It's like pretending to drive a car without wheels. Of course the will not work!
Adding other parameters to the system, it will only degrade it's performance.
"How many advances in knowledge came from
real world observations that did not fit with the understanding at the time?"
the problem wit this, is that we UNDERSTAND the way thermodynamics works and we are able to already predict the output. You assumed we made an "observation we don't understand in that time", but it is false, since we are able to alredy predict the data.
The real shocking thing is that one of the first top universities in the world got involved in this.... Mistakes happens, okay, but this is ridiculous, because all the working team probably didn't know the first principle of thermodynamics... If I brought a project like that to my physic professor, he would have laughed at me!
So, basically this "project" have:
1. involved a prestigious university and screwed it in a really wired up way
2. took pepole money proposing something it's fundamentally wrong, from concept to implementation (it won't even work in rainy areas!)
3. got involved the UN making them really look stupid
4. the poor guys on the video were tagged as ignorant in thermodynamics (they will probably have a really hard time passing physics exams!)
5. used African poor peoples as an excuse to raise money
6. screwed indiegogo credibility.
And all the points are morally unacceptable to me. Won't be a surprise if someone take legal actions against them (and man, we are talking to giants even more powerful than mega-corporations!)