How We Can Turn Desert Air Into Drinking Water. With solar on your roof and a battery in your garage, you can make your own power today. Water is the one essential you still have to buy. Now a machine pulls water from air so dry it could give you a nosebleed. The secret is a metal organic framework, a powder so remarkable that Omar Yaghi shared a Nobel Prize for pioneering it. His company Atoco says one shipping-container-sized unit can make up to 4,000 liters a day, and that water could reach places too far inland for desalination. So is this machine actually the water breakthrough solar and batteries were missing? Or is it just a very expensive science experiment?

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04:14 - The video suggests that Atoco’s water harvesters use MOF-303. Atoco says it uses newer MOFs that it designs and makes itself, including MOF-LA from Omar Yaghi’s team: ACS Publications The Death Valley test in the video did use MOF-303, at Yaghi’s UC Berkeley lab.

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