Can you theoretically have an endless supply of water if you can find a way to collect the water that condensates on the outside of a water bottle?
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To a degree, yes. Similar to how ac units (the cold side) usually requires a drain pipe due to the humidity in the surrounding air cooling and losing enough energy to fall back into a liquid state and run down the side.
That being said the water you could collect this way is effectively infinite due to the water cycle of earth and massive amount of ocean. The main cost is POWER.
Cutting out the ice maker or refrigerator as the middle man and just using the condenser/heat pump inside of it to cool a surface for collecting water will almost certainly be more expensive per gallon than buying a case of water and cooling it in the refrigerator. Although yes it is completely possible to pull “effectively” infinite amounts of water from the atmosphere, on a large enough scale it may present some climate challenges or weather changes
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