Super Sponge Absorbs Water from Air

New Hydrogel Collects & Cleans Water from Air





Solar Powered Water Harvester

This is new innovation from engineers at the University of Texas Austin.  It's a hydrogel powered by the sun that is able to collect, harvest and clean a lot of water from the atmosphere.  And it doesn't matter if the air is dry or humid.

Super Sponge
The "super sponge" absorbs moisture from the air, stores it and then releases it after being exposed to natural sunlight for five minutes.  According to the team, the hydrogel can  produce 50 liters of water per kilogram of hydrogel. They believe it can replace key components in current solar powered water harvesters.

Super Gel
The material is a gel polymer hybrid that passively absorbs moisture from the atmosphere and returns it as clean, usable water.  There are 50,000 cubic kilometers of water in the atmosphere.  The new system could tap into that and lead to small, inexpensive and portable filtration systems.  One of the world's most pressing needs is clean, accessible drinking water.  For more news blogs like this go to amazon.com/author/ekane

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

E-Friendly Paddleboard Easy Eddy

Navigation Display on Car Dashboard

Netting a Drone - US Army Countermeasure