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Inspired by dew drops
I noticed an interesting article in "De Pers" news paper today. I am sure this will have a great and such a useful future.
Two Isreali inventors, Joseph Cory and Eyal Malka, have been inspired by dew drops on spider webs. The webs catch the dew from the air. So Cory and Malka constructed a giant spider web, making it possible to collect drinking water from the air.
The inventors showed off their prototype this week. Actually it is no more than a large sheet with a hole in the middle where a plastic container hangs, this pulls the sheet tight, to form an inverted pyramid. Dew drops fall onto the sheet and run down into the container.
The prototype hung between trees, but the next will be self supporting. It collected 20 litres of clean drinking water, but the end product will collect more.
The inventors hope this will find a use in refugee camps.
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