New materials allow 2.8l/day of solar-powered desert water-vapor extraction
by Cory Doctorow from on (#2K3HM)
Researchers from MIT, UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley, and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology published a paper in Science describing a solar-powered device that uses a new type of metal organic framework (MOF) to extract up to three litres of water per day from even the most arid desert air. (more")