Omar Yaghi: Harvesting water from desert air

This will change the world - for the better. Well done, Omar and team.

There is something profoundly significant in the design of the box here, in that in the ancient world the ancient Persians at Parsagadae and Romans in Cyrenia had a construction to create water in the desert using marble, obviously this is an extraordinary improvement and I would love to see this constructed to scale with an underground cone reservoir. What an exceptional development! The science here is beautiful!

With solar power/battery storage plus harvesting your own water and perhaps growing your own food hydroponically, technology is FREEING the individual. One can now buy VERY cheap raw land that doesn't have city water or electric and set up a VERY LOW cost living situation. We are living in an awesome time of liberation from big city municipalities thus empowering the individual.

Fantastic :) This should be getting more attention!

That was an amazing presentation.

Fascinating that this professor , his three students are hero’s of the world one hundred fifty countries that lack water and from University of Berkeley extremely intelligent. ♥️💯🇺🇸👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Amazing!!!!

WOW ?! we need this

That is fantastic we can collect water from air when drought days!!

Maybe we’ll all become water farmers like Luke’s uncle on Tatooine!

Is the material itself hydroscopic or does the microstructure of the material function as a one-way gate for ambient water vapor? It seems that the water vapor forms an electrostatic bond with the material once it enters the lattice, thus keeping the vapor pressure of water within the lattice lower than ambient and allowing more water vapor to enter. Until the material reaches a saturation point, water molecules will "lose" their contribution to the internal vapor pressure of the matrix (via electrostatic attraction and immobilization) as they permeate the microstructure, thus allowing more water to enter and become captured. Is this the actual operating principle?

I live in Australia, and have an interest in water production. I would like to know where to get the Mof from and prices? lve looked at a variety of ways of producing water without using expensive energy, the mof method sounds effective. Humidity is high during spring and summer 30 - 80% here in Qld maybe suitable for the conditions.

Excellent work. Where can I buy MOF 303 ?

I want to support drought hit farmers in my village who are greatly stressed. How do I get this to my place in India. Need some leads please.

Imagine 1000 devices and 100,000 Palm or Olive or Fig trees! in the dessert? my dream

thanks Yaghi for inspiring us in science materials.

Would somebody tell me where can i buy the WaHa 200?

Update?

Professor I bought some land in the NE Nevada desert, and have been studying methods of providing water w/out using ground water. I want to transform these acres to naturally heal itself.

that a great