Air To Water

You can’t pluck water out of thin air!…..Can you? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. The atmosphere holds a lot of water! The tricky part? Harvesting it. Condensing vapor by heating and cooling air eats up a ton of energy. So now what? Enter Ikra

Continue reading

Water From Wood

Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink… This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science, saying, I’m parched! Sailors everywhere wish ocean water was drinkable. What if there was a cheap way to REMOVE the salt? Professor Liangbing Hu from the University of Maryland might

Continue reading

Red Planet Blues

Everyone into the pool!…on MARS? This is Sandra Tsing Loh with the Loh Down on Science. A long time ago, in a galaxy not at all far away, Mars was super wet. How wet? About twenty-percent covered in liquid! But now our Red Planet is dry and dusty. Where did

Continue reading