This will remain in the history forever. A group of researchers at MIT released a video which shows their incredible ability to generate water out of fog. And the best part is, this is being done in the middle of a dessert.
The researchers are working with the Pontifical University of Chile, to create a mesh, which is in turn connected to the collector unit. The mesh is placed in a place where the fog comes due to the ocean wind, and the meshes grabs the fog that is coming along, and the droplets of water are collected in the collection silo.
Now that they have found a way to generate water from fog, the spacing between the mesh is constantly being worked on, to check the efficiency of collecting the water from fog. It is also estimated that, about 10 billion cubic meters of fog water is produced every single year in the Chile’s coast, and harvesting a fraction of this would be a groundbreaker.
Here’s a detailed video the researchers posted about this project, explaining how the water harvesting system works: