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This is a pretty exciting news, if all the claims in the article are true! It could make the big and expensive desalination plants obsolete, and it would have m

This is a pretty exciting news, if all the claims in the article are true! It could make the big and expensive desalination plants obsolete, and it would have many other uses than just drinking water. If this is cheap and not energy intensive, then it could also be used as a solution to irrigation in arid regions. If the claims of 6L/day from a 15% humidity desert air true, then it could provide irrigation even at such places. Does anybody know more sources of information on this technology?

blisterpeanuts 4y ago
Missing from the article is the size/density of the material required to achieve several liters of collected water. Judging by the porous nature of the material, it might require fairly large collectors, e.g. 10x10 meters. If the material is manageable at these large sizes, then it would be like a giant flag or sail flapping in the breeze, that hopefully the wind won't rupture or damage. Then for harvesting the water... you'd roll it up and squeeze it in a heated chamber? There are other technologies coming online for capturing water in arid conditions, for example the condenser device developed a couple of years ago at Technion in Israel [1]. Still, it's quite intriguing especially given the simplicity and low cost. 1. https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-scientists-generate-water-from-air-even-in-the-desert/ https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-scientists-generate-water-...