Forget everything you knew about the evaporation of water - this is a revolutionary discovery that will change how we purify water, cool our cities and model the weather.
https://youtu.be/17Y82tJDk2o?si=92yxrRUO30Zbw4F3
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https://news.mit.edu/2024/how-light-can-vaporize-water-without-heat-0423
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@PhiladociousRex Addiional info for the curious:
MIT News: https://news.mit.edu/2024/how-light-can-vaporize-water-without-heat-0423
PNAS paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2320844121
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@PhiladociousRex How could you make this work at night? There's a new research into a metamaterial that up-converts infrared light to green light. It currently converts 1550-nm infrared to visible 550-nm light.
https://newatlas.com/technology/night-vision-thin-light-lens/
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@peterquirk this is the kind of stuff that quietly gives me hope that humanity isn't totally doomed.
Hot damn! That is soooo cool. It’s this kind of thing that has kept me as a science fan-boy since I learned to read.
@peterquirk this is amazing!