{"id":188816,"date":"2024-05-07T08:23:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T13:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/mit-makes-astonishing-discovery-that-light-can-vaporize-water-without-heat-for-clean-energy-and-desalination"},"modified":"2024-05-07T08:23:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T13:23:13","slug":"mit-makes-astonishing-discovery-that-light-can-vaporize-water-without-heat-for-clean-energy-and-desalination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/mit-makes-astonishing-discovery-that-light-can-vaporize-water-without-heat-for-clean-energy-and-desalination","title":{"rendered":"MIT Makes \u2018Astonishing\u2019 Discovery That Light Can Vaporize Water Without Heat\u2013for Clean Energy and Desalination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-makes-astonishing-discovery-that-light-can-vaporize-water-without-heat-for-clean-energy-and-desalination2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not every year that a major discovery is made in the basic natural sciences of Earth, but using painfully precise measurements, MIT has written a new chapter in something that most people probably thought they knew completely: evaporation.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists say the discovery could explain \u201cmysterious measurements\u201d in the literature of clouds which may increase the precision of climate modeling, while also aiding in industrial applications.<\/p>\n<p>In this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2320844121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a>, the discovery that evaporation can occur just with light and without heat was so unexpected and surprising that it was subjected to 14 different tests and measurements to try and disprove what the scientists observed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not every year that a major discovery is made in the basic natural sciences of Earth, but using painfully precise measurements, MIT has written a new chapter in something that most people probably thought they knew completely: evaporation. The scientists say the discovery could explain \u201cmysterious measurements\u201d in the literature of clouds which may [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188816","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}