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Harnessing natural gas to harvest water from the air might solve 2 big problems at once

  • Written by Vaibhav Bahadur, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
Harnessing natural gas to harvest water from the air might solve 2 big problems at onceOil drilling produces natural gas that often gets burned on the spot, going to waste.AP Photo/Eric Gay

One of the biggest freshwater reservoirs in the world is, literally, up in the air.

Between 6 and 18 million gallons of freshwater hover above every square mile of land, not counting droplets trapped in clouds. Scientists realized this centuries...

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