We are the water planet, our oceans cover 70% of the earth, and if we, as humans, could survive on salt water, we'd be in great shape. Unfortunately, salt water just doesn't do a body good, as far as I know anyhow. There is, of course, desalinization, but the plants to produce drinking water from salt water are costly and complicated.
Another source of fresh drinkable water is the air, the same air we breathe every day, the same air that has those billowy white clouds up in the sky, the same clouds that darken when the moisture they are comprised of gets too heavy, and starts to fall as raindrops.
Rain, yes! Rain, of course! The same rain that replenishes our rivers and streams, the same rain that in the winter falls as snow, and runoff from spring melting fills our reservoirs. The same life sustaining rain that charlatans used to promise with their rain maker machines during periods of drought in the old days. But, rain is not what we're talking about here.
There is now, thanks to science, 'real' science and technology, a way to extract that water from thin air without waiting for a cloudburst to appear, and that from a new startup called Source Global. According to CNBC, and Bill Gates among others, Source Global has found a way, using sun powered hydro panels, to take water vapor from the air, compress it 10,000 times its normal concentration in the atmosphere, and convert those molecules to liquid water. Clean, fresh, drinkable liquid water, and do it relatively cheaply to boot, for an individual home, or clustered for a small community.
How 'bout that now... ain't that somethin'.
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