DALLAS -- In "Star Wars," Luke Skywalker grows up on the hot desert planet Tatooine. His family owns a moisture farm that uses devices called “vaporators” to pull drinking water from the air.
But while vaporators are a figment of science fiction, the technology that makes them work may be moving closer to fact.
Researchers from Xianming “Simon” Dai’s lab at the University of Texas at Dallas are developing technology that can pull water from the air. They recently published a paper in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showcasing a more efficient way of harvesting water that takes inspiration from a carnivorous plant.
