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| <blockquote>Spells are nothing but poems intended to write something new on the face of reality. | <blockquote>Spells are nothing but poems intended to write something new on the face of reality. |
| –Warren Ellis</blockquote> | <cite>Warren Ellis</cite></blockquote> |
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| <blockquote>Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” It might seem counter-intuitive, but Coleridge’s famous line from the Ancient Mariner could also apply to the desert. Even in some of the driest places on earth, the air holds thousands of litres of fresh water that have remained tantalisingly inaccessible. Until now. Scientists at MIT and the University of California at Berkeley have created a device that can suck water from the air. Even better: it’s solar-powered. So, even in the most remote, arid deserts it can harvest drinking water from the atmosphere. | <blockquote>Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” It might seem counter-intuitive, but Coleridge’s famous line from the Ancient Mariner could also apply to the desert. Even in some of the driest places on earth, the air holds thousands of litres of fresh water that have remained tantalisingly inaccessible. Until now. Scientists at MIT and the University of California at Berkeley have created a device that can suck water from the air. Even better: it’s solar-powered. So, even in the most remote, arid deserts it can harvest drinking water from the atmosphere. |
| - Charlotte Edmond, The solar-powered tech that generates water out of desert air | <cite>Charlotte Edmond, The solar-powered tech that generates water out of desert air</cite> |
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| "There’s a way, that I can’t describe in words, where teparies to me taste like the desert itself,” [tepary bean evangelist Gary Paul Nabhan] said. “They have this nuttiness and this resilience." (...) Nabhan believes the drought-tolerant teparies could become a solution for growing food in a hotter and drier Arizona. Traditionally, the Tohono O'odham grow teparies on monsoon rains alone. "I think we’re going to see agriculture of the future looking much more in harmony with the desert rather than always being in struggle with a desert existence," Nabhan said." | "There’s a way, that I can’t describe in words, where teparies to me taste like the desert itself,” [tepary bean evangelist Gary Paul Nabhan] said. “They have this nuttiness and this resilience." (...) Nabhan believes the drought-tolerant teparies could become a solution for growing food in a hotter and drier Arizona. Traditionally, the Tohono O'odham grow teparies on monsoon rains alone. "I think we’re going to see agriculture of the future looking much more in harmony with the desert rather than always being in struggle with a desert existence," Nabhan said." |
| – Mariana Dale, Arizona's Tepary Beans</blockquote> | <cite> Mariana Dale, Arizona's Tepary Beans</cite></blockquote> |
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