fog harvesting Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:57:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Lima, Perú – Freshwater From a Billboard, University of Engineering and Technology https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lima-peru-freshwater-from-a-billboard-university-of-engineering-and-technology-20130227/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lima-peru-freshwater-from-a-billboard-university-of-engineering-and-technology-20130227/#respond Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:36:56 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=34151 If there’s one thing that mars a skyline worse than a building in front of your favorite mountaintop, it’s probably a billboard. Of course, a billboard is put there in your face for exactly that reason, so you take notice of it. In Lima, Perú, the University of Engineering and Technology [UTEC] has re-imagined the […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/lima-peru-freshwater-from-a-billboard-university-of-engineering-and-technology-20130227/feed/ 0 34151 Clean Water Harvested From Fog by Beetle-Inspired Device https://www.greenoptimistic.com/fog-harvesting-device-20110425/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/fog-harvesting-device-20110425/#comments Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:55:53 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=18177 Inspired by Stenocara gracilipes, a beetle found in the Namib Desert, MIT engineer Shreerang Chhatre developed a simple and efficient device that can harvest fog. Being actually an inexpensive way to provide clean drinking water, this fog harvesting device could be perfect for poorer countries, where water scarcity is still an unsolved problem.

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