{"id":36091,"date":"2017-04-13T17:42:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T00:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/scientists-have-created-a-device-that-sucks-water-out-of-thin-air-even-in-the-desert"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:05:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:05:00","slug":"scientists-have-created-a-device-that-sucks-water-out-of-thin-air-even-in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/scientists-have-created-a-device-that-sucks-water-out-of-thin-air-even-in-the-desert","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Created a Device That Sucks Water Out of Thin Air, Even in the Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-created-a-device-that-sucks-water-out-of-thin-air-even-in-the-desert.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to future challenges, one of the biggest will be water scarcity \u2014 on a warming planet we\u2019re going to have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-create-a-graphene-based-sieve-that-turns-seawater-into-drinking-water\">plenty of seawater<\/a>, but not enough fresh, clean water in the right places for everybody to drink.<\/p>\n<p>And while a lot of research <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-create-a-graphene-based-sieve-that-turns-seawater-into-drinking-water\">has focussed on desalination<\/a>, a team of scientists have now come up with another possible solution \u2014 a device that pulls fresh water out of thin air, even in places with humidity as low as 20 percent. All it needs is sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>It might sound too good to be true, but so far the research is solid. Called the \u2018solar-powered harvester\u2019, the device was created by teams from MIT and the University of California, Berkeley, using a special type of material known as a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metal-organic_framework\">metal-organic framework (MOF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-created-a-solar-powered-device-that-sucks-water-out-of-thin-air-even-in-the-desert\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-created-a-solar-...the-desert<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to future challenges, one of the biggest will be water scarcity \u2014 on a warming planet we\u2019re going to have plenty of seawater, but not enough fresh, clean water in the right places for everybody to drink. And while a lot of research has focussed on desalination, a team of scientists have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36091","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36091"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58084,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36091\/revisions\/58084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}