{"id":3703,"date":"2025-11-20T11:33:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/scientists-find-a-way-to-create-drinking-water-from-air\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:33:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:33:19","slug":"scientists-find-a-way-to-create-drinking-water-from-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/scientists-find-a-way-to-create-drinking-water-from-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists find a way to create drinking water from air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-11-20 11:33:18<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Scientists have found a way to create drinkable water out of thin air.<BR><br \/>\nThe technique, created by engineers at MIT, can turn atmospheric moisture into clean drinking water in minutes, and could transform water access for people living in drought-stricken or remote regions where no freshwater or seawater sources exist.<BR><br \/>\nAtmospheric water harvesting isn\u2019t new, as sponge-like \u201csorbent\u201d materials can already pull small amounts of humidity from the air. <BR><br \/>\nBut releasing that captured water has always been the bottleneck, with most systems relying on slow solar heating.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Svetlana Boriskina &#8211; who led the study &#8211; wrote in Nature Communications: \u201cAny material that\u2019s very good at capturing water doesn\u2019t want to part with that water. <BR><br \/>\n\u201cYou need to put a lot of energy and precious hours into pulling water out of the material.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nThe MIT team\u2019s solution is a high-frequency ultrasonic actuator that shakes the water free. <BR><br \/>\nThe device uses vibrations exceeding 20,000 cycles per second to break the weak bonds holding water molecules inside the sorbent. <BR><br \/>\nLead author Ikra Shuvo explained: \u201cWith ultrasound, we can precisely break those bonds. It\u2019s like the water is dancing with the waves.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nIn tests, the device dried fully saturated sorbent samples within minutes &#8211; up to 45 times faster than sunlight-driven systems. <BR><br \/>\nThe system could be powered by a small solar cell, which would also detect when the material is saturated and trigger the vibration cycle automatically.<BR><br \/>\nResearchers say the technology could be paired with fast-absorbing sorbents in household or community-scale devices, each roughly the size of a window panel. <BR><br \/>\nWith rapid cycling throughout the day, such systems could yield substantial volumes of drinking water.<BR><br \/>\nBoriskina said: \u201cPeople have been looking for ways to harvest water from the atmosphere, especially in places with no freshwater at all.<BR><br \/>\n\u201cNow we have a way to recover it quickly and efficiently.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-11-20 11:33:18 Scientists have found a way to create drinkable water out of thin air. The technique, created by engineers at MIT, can turn atmospheric moisture into clean drinking water&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3705,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions\/3705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}