사막 공기에서 하루 1000리터의 깨끗한 물을 추출할 수 있는 장치

Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful A 2025 Nobel Prize winner has set up a company to commercialize a machine that it claims can pull 1,000 liters (about 264 US Gal) of drinkable water a day from the thin air. As Interesting Engineering reports, Professor Omar Yaghi, a chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, invented a machine that works effectively in desert air with 20% humidity or lower. As a self-contained off-grid device, it has the potential to provide relief to regions scattered around the globe, where water shortages are persistent or have been precipitated by a natural disaster. Yaghi’s company, Atoco, also sees a market in “personalized water,” much like where households generate their own off-grid power from wind or solar. Prototypes have been successfully tested in places as arid as Death Valley. The 1,000 liters a day machine is far bigger than the social media prototype machine image we see alongside the Professor in the desert, at around 20ft in length, or the size of a shipping container. Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) The science behind this new clean water harvesting machine is based on reticular chemistry, one of Yaghi’s specialist areas. In particular, the device is packed with Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), which are synthetic porous materials engineered at the molecular level to have huge surface areas. A few grams of an MOF can have a surface area equivalent to a football arena, according to the source. Article continues belowWith this incredibly large surface area in such a compact form, the MOF is adept at collecting water from the air and condensing it to a liquid. Yaghi’s mechanism can do this without a power source. It uses the wind and air for water input, then the sun to drive condensation and evaporative action. It is worth repeating – the invention can operate as a self-contained, entirely off-grid device. Atoco also touts the availability of on-grid solutions, though. Inspired by hardship The MOF Water Harvester device was inspired by Yaghi’s personal history, growing up in a refugee community in Jordan, where his family would listen out for the arrival of the water truck, hoping to beat the rush to fill their life-sustaining containers. The UN has been warning about water insecurity, or even water bankruptcy, for years, so inventions like this could have sizable positive impacts for humanity. Follow Tom's Hardware on Google News, or add us as a preferred source, to get our latest news, analysis, & reviews in your feeds. Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox. Mark Tyson is a news editor at Tom's Hardware. He enjoys covering the full breadth of PC tech; from business and semiconductor design to products approaching the edge of reason. - This is super interesting. It’s kind of like a heat pump in that where we think there is no moisture or heat left, there is. We just need to figure out how to move it from one place to another. Brilliant work here.Reply - This would be great but there are a few vague details here. Like cost of unit and at what humidity this 20' device achieves 1,000 liters per day. Just stating it can work at under 20 percent humidity, almost certainly doesn't mean it can achieve 1,000 liters per day at low humidity. There are already devices like this for off grid use but they are pretty expensive.Reply Not trying to be a hater but I get really annoyed with Interesting Engineering click bait titles that are overhyped at best and complete and utter nonsense at the worst. Not that this is one of them, but they have a very long history of clickbait BS. - Reply Agreed. There's usually a catch, somewhere.sygreenblum said:Not trying to be a hater but I get really annoyed with Interesting Engineering click bait titles that are overhyped at best He did win a Nobel prize in chemistry, for his work on the same kind of Metal Organic Frameworks this uses, so I assume the science is sound. However, I have to wonder about stuff like its susceptibility to clogging with dust, which seems to be an issue in highly arid regions. If the amount of surface area is such a key to the device's operation, wouldn't dust prove to be a fatal flaw? Yes, you can add dust filters, but can you filter enough of the really small particles without restricting airflow too much, and then what of the practical issues surrounding either cleaning or replacement of those dust filters? Another thought I have is about the energy inputs needed to manufacture the material. Maybe it can operate on solar energy, once fully assembled, but the manufacturing inputs might be fairly large and you might need to change the active material somewhat regularly. Even if it has a couple of drawbacks, that's not to say it's worthless. Just, maybe not quite such a miracle machine as the article makes it sound like. - Indeed, and if it takes a shipping container sized