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Penn Engineers Discover a New Class of Materials That Passively Harvest Water from Air
(blog.seas.upenn.edu)
this post was submitted on 26 May 2025
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Trees harvest it from the ground, not the air.
Trees absorb MOST of their water through the soil, but are absolutely capable of absorbing water directly into their leaves. Google "Foliar uptake"