Turning sunlight into water: New technology and old knowledge to stop Timor-Leste from running dryThe locals from Akrema village on the remote i...
Published on by Water Network Research, Official research team of The Water Network
The locals from Akrema village on the remote island of Atauro have never seen anything like it before - 40 hydropanels in rows, tilted towards the sky, performing a mysterious process to give them a commodity they so badly need: Clean water.
The technology - called SOURCE - by American company Zero Mass is designed to produce high-quality drinking water purely from sunlight and air. Without connecting to grid power, it uses solar energy to form condensation in the panels, which slowly collects and runs down a hose to the village below.
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- Water from Air