A backpack-scale atmospheric water generator in development. ML-optimized heat exchangers are designed to target 1–2 liters of clean drinking water per day from ambient air. Target pack weight under 2 lb; designed to run from a high-capacity USB-C power bank. Backpack-portable form factor—prototype validation in progress.
Water is the heaviest, most critical resource humans transport. From thru-hikers on the Appalachian Trail to communities in the Sahel, the same problem persists: clean water is locked behind logistics, infrastructure, and weight.
"The hiker still runs out. The ranger still turns back. The community still walks. The solution shouldn't require finding water — it should generate it."
Water is everywhere — 13 trillion tons of it suspended in the air around us — and we've been looking in the wrong place.
NanoStorm is a backpack-scale atmospheric water generator in development—integrated where you carry your gear. Target: under 2 lb total weight; USB-C power-bank-powered (~50 W) system design—external power-bank architecture, compatible with common sub-100Wh USB-C power banks (airline policies on lithium packs vary). Designed to supplement carried water on the trail and in remote work—field validation and pilots before scale.
Target: complete system under 2 lb—designed to reduce how much drinking water you must pack versus carrying a full day’s supply; subject to field validation.
Designed to produce 1–2 liters of drinking water per day from ambient humidity. Current bench prototype: 0.3 L/day; ML-optimized heat exchanger validation in progress.
Target ~50 W system draw vs. typical home AWG units. Designed to run from a high-capacity USB-C power bank; runtime depends on power-bank capacity, humidity, temperature, airflow, and duty cycle. Validation in progress.
4-stage filtration designed to NSF/ANSI P231 protocol. Targeting 6-log bacteria, 4-log virus, and 3-log protozoa reduction per the EPA Guide Standard. Mineralized for taste.
Engineered for 40–95% relative humidity as a design band. Field validation testing planned starting Q4 2026 across diverse climate conditions.
We are running hundreds of computational fluid dynamics simulations across generated geometries and training machine learning models to design heat exchanger geometries no human engineer could draft by hand.
Our design workflow uses CFD simulation and machine-learning optimization to improve airflow, condensation surface area, thermal transfer, and energy use inside a compact portable system. Hardware validation milestone: Q3 2026.
Atmospheric water generation is a proven $2.8–3.3B industry growing at 9–14% annually, with leading analysts projecting it to reach $5–13B by the early 2030s. Commercial AWG today is largely stationary, heavy, and grid-tethered. We're targeting portable, USB-C power-bank-powered AWG at backpack scale—not another building-sized unit.
"Watergen proved AWG works for buildings. We're targeting backpack-scale AWG designed around external power banks. The physics is understood; our job is execution and validation. The market is moving. The category is wide open."
We're starting with users who already feel water as a hard constraint: thru-hikers carrying liters between sources, SAR and field teams operating away from resupply, and defense/emergency teams where water logistics shape the mission. Outdoor users give us the fastest path to paid feedback; institutional pilots prove the rugged use cases.
Join the early list for prototype updates, field-test opportunities, and first access when NanoStorm is ready for outdoor beta users.