{"id":16413,"date":"2024-10-31T12:37:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T11:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/31\/cloud-milking-the-zero-energy-technique-keeping-young-trees-alive\/"},"modified":"2024-10-31T12:37:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T11:37:33","slug":"cloud-milking-the-zero-energy-technique-keeping-young-trees-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/31\/cloud-milking-the-zero-energy-technique-keeping-young-trees-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Cloud-milking\u2019: the zero-energy technique keeping young trees alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The project that began in the Canary Islands mimics the way leaves capture water droplets from fog in order to produce water<\/p>\n<p>They call it cloud milking, a zero-energy technique to extract water from fog that is revolutionising the recovery of forests devastated by fire and drought.<\/p>\n<p>The idea began as a pilot project in the Canary Islands. The plan was to exploit the moisture-laden \u201csea of clouds\u201d that hangs over the region in order to aid reforestation, and has since been extended to several other countries to produce drinking water, and to irrigate crops.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/oct\/31\/cloud-milking-fog-wind-water-keep-young-trees-alive-life-nieblas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/250b84ecf1618fae72e72032416910552fd8eda1\/0_208_6240_3744\/master\/6240.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=990c0ce61822afd67545bae125dc18ff\" title=\"\u2018Cloud-milking\u2019: the zero-energy technique keeping young trees alive\" \/>The project that began in the Canary Islands mimics the way leaves capture water droplets from fog in order to produce water<br \/>\nThey call it cloud milking, a zero-energy technique to extract water from fog that is revolutionising the recovery of forests devastated by fire and drought.<br \/>\nThe idea began as a pilot project in the Canary Islands. The plan was to exploit the moisture-laden \u201csea of clouds\u201d that hangs over the region in order to aid reforestation, and has since been extended to several other countries to produce drinking water, and to irrigate crops. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The project that began in the Canary Islands mimics the way leaves capture water droplets from fog in order to produce water They call it cloud milking, a zero-energy technique to extract water from fog that is revolutionising the recovery of forests devastated by fire and drought. The idea began as a pilot project in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/31\/cloud-milking-the-zero-energy-technique-keeping-young-trees-alive\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Cloud-milking\u2019: the zero-energy technique keeping young trees alive<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16413"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}