{"id":170260,"date":"2023-08-23T03:27:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T08:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/new-system-captures-fog-and-turns-it-into-clean-water"},"modified":"2023-08-23T03:27:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T08:27:50","slug":"new-system-captures-fog-and-turns-it-into-clean-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/new-system-captures-fog-and-turns-it-into-clean-water","title":{"rendered":"New system captures fog and turns it into clean water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-system-captures-fog-and-turns-it-into-clean-water.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People living in dry but foggy areas can benefit from this technology.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from ETH Zurich have developed a system that captures fog in the atmosphere and simultaneously removes contaminants while running using solar power.<\/p>\n<p>The harvesting and water treatment system consists of a metal wire mesh with a solar-light-activated reactive coating that captures the fog. The droplets of water then trickle down into a container below. The mesh is coated with a mixture of specially selected polymers and titanium dioxide, which acts as a chemical catalyst and breaks down the molecules of the pollutants into harmless particles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People living in dry but foggy areas can benefit from this technology. Researchers from ETH Zurich have developed a system that captures fog in the atmosphere and simultaneously removes contaminants while running using solar power. The harvesting and water treatment system consists of a metal wire mesh with a solar-light-activated reactive coating that captures the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,48,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-particle-physics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170260","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}