Yale Environment 360: A student at Australia’s Swinburne University this week received the James Dyson Award for a device he says is capable of harvesting moisture from the air for use in irrigation, even in the world’s driest places. Developed by Edward Linnacre, the Airdrop is a wind- or solar-powered device that sucks air underground through a coiled metal pipe, where the cooler temperature of the surrounding soil slowly causes it to condense. The device ultimately collects the water in an underground tank before it......
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Irrigation Device Pulls Water From the Air in Driest Conditions
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 11th, 2011
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