Posted on Jun 29, 2023
This machine creates drinking water ‘from thin air’ in driest parts of the world
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For the vast majority of Americans, access to clean drinking water is a given. But that isn’t the case for Abbie Nez. The 77-year-old has lived in a one-room hogan on the Navajo Nation for decades without running water or electricity.
She has to drive into Page, Ariz., to buy water for cooking and bathing even though the country’s second-largest reservoir, Lake Powell, is close to Nez’s home.
She has to drive into Page, Ariz., to buy water for cooking and bathing even though the country’s second-largest reservoir, Lake Powell, is close to Nez’s home.
This machine creates drinking water ‘from thin air’ in driest parts of the world
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Reminds me of moisture farming from Star Wars. The fictional planet of Tattoine is desert. Luke Skywalker's uncle and aunt did this for a living.
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Moisture_farm
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Moisture_farm
A moisture farm was an area of land devoted to the production of water through the drawing of moisture from the dry air. It depended on vaporators, a type of device that could harvest excess atmospheric humidity. On hot and arid desert worlds like Tatooine, moisture farming was a vital activity. The Lars family, into which Luke Skywalker was adopted, owned one such farm. The family of Biggs Darklighter was rich enough to own twenty. Banthas...
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