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Edward Linacre: it's possible to get water from thin air

Edward Linacre:  it's possible to get water from thin air | Science News | Scoop.it
Edward Linacre tells Ian Tucker how droughts inspired him to invent a condensation system that produces irrigation water from the atmosphere...
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SunGlacier Aspires To Deep Freeze The Desert : Discovery News

SunGlacier Aspires To Deep Freeze The Desert : Discovery News | Science News | Scoop.it
A giant dune-spanning, solar-powered leaf could turn even the most parched desert outpost into a fertile oasis of ice.

The concept (and the above image) certainly seems like a scene Salvador Dali would have painted, however, this is no surrealist figment of the imagination. It's an actual project called SunGlacier that Dutch artist, Ap Verheggen, has hatched with Cofely Refrigeration to make the impossible possible.

 

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