This Tower Pulls Drinking Water Out of Thin Air | Smithsonian
2014年4月8日 · Designer Arturo Vittori says his invention can provide remote villages with more than 25 gallons of clean drinking water per day
Extracting drinking water from dry desert air is no longer a …
2018年6月9日 · Earlier this year, a team of researchers from the University of California Berkeley reported they had created a device that can extract water from dry desert air, without using an external fuel source.
This Device Pulls Water Out of Desert Air | Smithsonian
2018年6月20日 · It’s a water harvester that can extract water from the air, even in extremely dry climates, using no energy other than ambient sunlight. The key to the water harvester is a new class of materials...
Collecting clean water from air, inspired by desert life
2018年12月26日 · The cactus, beetle and desert grasses all collect water condensed from nighttime fog, gathering droplets from the air and filtering them to roots or reservoirs, providing enough hydration to...
The Fog Collectors: Harvesting Water From Thin Air
2011年3月7日 · Today nearly two people in ten have no source of safe drinking water according to the U.N. But in some desert areas, where there is very little rain, fog and dew are abundant sources of humidity that are being harvested to produce fresh water.
This new solar-powered device can pull water straight from the desert …
You can't squeeze blood from a stone, but wringing water from the desert sky is now possible, thanks to a new spongelike device that uses sunlight to suck water vapor from air, even in low humidity.
Desert ‘fog catchers’ make water out of thin air - CNN
2016年11月18日 · In a mountainous area on the edge of the Sahara in Southwest Morocco, large mesh nets capture clouds of fog and condense it into clean drinking water. The fog-catching project provides clean...
In desert trials, next-generation water harvester delivers fresh water ...
2018年6月8日 · In desert trials, UC Berkeley scientists demonstrated that their next-generation water harvester can collect drinkable water from desert air each day/night cycle, using a MOF that absorbs water during the night and, through solar heating during the day, releases it to be condensed and collected.
How to get fresh water out of thin air - MIT News
2013年8月30日 · Chilean investigators have estimated that if just 4 percent of the water contained in the fog could be captured, that would be sufficient to meet all of the water needs of that nation’s four northernmost regions, encompassing the entire Atacama Desert area.
Collecting clean water from air, inspired by desert life - Ohio …
Desert grasses collect water at their tips, then channel the water toward their root systems via channels in each blade. A cactus collects water on its barbed tips before guiding droplets down conical spines to the base of the plant.