Pak Kitae of Seoul National University has designed a water bottle called “Dew Bank” which refills itself. Stainless steel Dew Bank when Left out over night, could capture enough dew to fill a water glass. The night’s lower temperatures cools the metal. As the air warms, water condenses on the bottle’s dome and travels down its grooves into a collecting channel at the base. A glass of water isn’t much but it might provide an added source of clean drinking water to people living in dry lands.
The concept has been adapted by inspiration from Onymacris unguicularis a fog-basking beetle. This beetle insect climbs the dunes of the Namib Desert each day to do a bit of morning yoga. Standing on its head, the beetle is able to collect moisture from the fog that rolls in from the Atlantic Ocean, the dew drops are collected in its body.
A wonderful insect isn’t it and it gives us ideas which can help mankind in many ways.
via SmartPlanet
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