These solar panels that can pull clean drinking water out of the air just got a big boost
Zero Mass Water
- Zero Mass Water makes solar panel arrays that pull clean drinking water from the air.
- The $4,500 arrays recently launched in the United States.
- Zero Mass arrays could come in handy in areas where water sources are far away or scarce. Some homeowners have purchased arrays as an alternative to plastic water bottles.
Around the world, approximately 2.1 billion people do not have immediate access to clean drinking water.
A sustainable water startup called Zero Mass aims to make clean water easily accessible to more people around the world. In 2015, it launched its first product, Source — a solar panel array that harvests and filters water from vapor in the air — in eight countries, including Chile, Jordan, and Peru.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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