"So these are energetically very favorable conditions and the water that is delivered is ultra clean and has no contamination in it whatsoever. It's drinkable after it's mineralized, but also could be used for agriculture, for household use, for hygiene, and it's just water that is produced every day-clean, clean water."
"All these technological problems, once we decide, once we have the will to fix those problems, solutions emerge just like the solution that just received the Nobel Prize,"
"I think that once society decides that there's a problem, we will get to work and those problems can be solved."
Global warming poses escalating risks, but technological tools can mitigate those risks if society commits to action. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) provide practical carbon-capture applications and have been deployed to remove carbon dioxide from flue gas and cement plants. MOF-based devices can extract water from desert air and a device can deliver 850 liters of water per day using only ambient sunlight or waste heat. The produced water is ultra clean, free of contamination, drinkable after mineralization, and suitable for agriculture, household use, and hygiene. Breakthroughs in reticular chemistry and MOFs have been recognized with a Nobel Prize for their practical environmental applications.
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