Modern Alchemy: Drinking Water from Air

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    In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill shares a technology first developed by a team of scientists from MIT and UC Berkeley that could radically change the world by mitigating the global water crisis.

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About World Ocean Radio
Peter Neill, Director of the World Ocean Observatory and host of World Ocean Radio, provides coverage of a broad spectrum of ocean issues from science and education to advocacy and exemplary projects. World Ocean Radio, a project of the World Ocean Observatory, is a weekly series of five-minute audio essays available for syndicated use at no cost by college and community radio stations worldwide.

Resources from this episode
< Device Pulls Water From Air, Powered by the Sun (Berkeley News)
< Water Water Everywhere...Even in the Air (MIT News)
< New Solar-Powered Device Pulls Water Straight from the Desert (SCIENCE

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Crystalline materials similar to these can now harvest water vapor from the air.
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Yaghi Laboratory at UC Berkeley