{"id":121215,"date":"2021-04-04T01:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T08:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/new-water-vapor-condenser-takes-cues-from-darkling-beetle"},"modified":"2021-04-04T01:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T08:22:17","slug":"new-water-vapor-condenser-takes-cues-from-darkling-beetle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/new-water-vapor-condenser-takes-cues-from-darkling-beetle","title":{"rendered":"New water vapor condenser takes cues from darkling beetle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-water-vapor-condenser-takes-cues-from-darkling-beetle2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Access to clean water is a huge issue across the globe. Even in areas with water resources, a lack of infrastructure or reliable energy means purifying that water is sometimes extremely difficult.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/water\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">water<\/a> vapor <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/condenser\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">condenser<\/a> designed by University at Buffalo and University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers could be revolutionary. Unlike other radiative vapor condensers which can only operate at night, the new design works in direct sunlight and requires no energy input.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have worked on solar-driven water evaporation technologies in the past years,\u201d says Qiaoqiang Gan, Ph.D., professor of electrical engineering at UB and a leading corresponding author. \u201cWe are now addressing the second half of the water cycle, condensation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Access to clean water is a huge issue across the globe. Even in areas with water resources, a lack of infrastructure or reliable energy means purifying that water is sometimes extremely difficult. That\u2019s why a water vapor condenser designed by University at Buffalo and University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers could be revolutionary. Unlike other radiative vapor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}