Frank Herbert's Moisture Traps May Be a Reality

Omomyid writes "In the seminal science fiction book 'Dune,' Frank Herbert envisioned the Fremen collecting water from the air via moisture traps and dew collectors. Science Daily reprints a press release from the Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart, where scientists working with colleagues from Logos Innovationen have developed a closed-loop and self-sustaining method, no external power required, for teasing the humidity out of desert air and into potable water."

Comments

And this is news how?

[chaboud]

In Boy Scouts, years ago, we learned that an easy way to pull moisture from air was to bury (nearly to the brim) a mug in the ground. Moisture would condense on the inside of the mug in the morning and run down the side (because the ground would be colder than the air).

Leaves, etc.

Using natural temperature fluctuations and gravity hardly seems like a hard trick to figure out.

That said, I haven't read the article yet. Perhaps there are giant worms involved.

Re:When the figurative white man "discovers" it

[Anonymous Coward]

Dessert dwellers?

I didn't know people could live inside cakes and bowls of ice cream.