Friday 25 January 2013

Interesting hydro news



Two interesing hydro related articles in the web.

1) Mr. Snowman can  can't save us from flooding:

"Ideally, if everybody built themselves a snowman that will slow the thaw down a bit," said Roy Stokes, a spokesman for the agency. Check 4 full @ GUARDIAN
by Bill Watterson



Researchers TU/e together with researchers at the Hong Kong Polytechnic
University (PolyU), have developed a special treatment for cotton fabric that
allows the cotton to absorb exceptional amounts of water from misty air:
340 % of its own weight. What makes this 'coated cotton' so interesting is
that the cotton releases the collected water by itself, as it gets warmer. This
property makes of the coated cotton materials a potential solution to
provide water to the desert regions, for example for agricultural purposes.
The results of this research will be published next month in the scientific
journal Advanced Materials. Check 4 full @ TUEindhoven