{"id":1717,"date":"2016-10-07T15:44:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T15:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2016-10-07T15:45:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T15:45:29","slug":"business-insider-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/?p=1717","title":{"rendered":"Business Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business Insider<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/sails-gather-fog-water-california-2016-10\" target=\"_blank\">A set of ghostly, futuristic sails could help save California from drought<\/a><br \/>\nOctober 6, 2016<br \/>\nBy Dana Varinsky <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sails are one of the earliest ways humans seized the power of wind \u2014 people were using them to move boats across the sea even before the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n<p>A new design aims to apply that ancient technology to modern environmental challenges.<\/p>\n<p><em>Regatta H2O: Familiar Form, Chameleon Infrastructure<\/em> is the winner of a site-specific environmental competition called the Land Art Generator Initiative. The design proposes to repurpose the iconic maritime shape to harvest clean water in addition to wind.<\/p>\n<p>Regatta H2O \u2014 which was named the first place winner on October 6 \u2014 features a set of 44 sails made of a high-tech fog-harvesting mesh material. The sails would stand alone in the ocean (no boats necessary), where air is moist and fog is common. Veins in the sails&#8217; surfaces would serve as moisture collection troughs, funneling the collected water to a central mast, which would in turn pump the liquid to a set of storage vessels on the shore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/sails-gather-fog-water-california-2016-10\" target=\"_blank\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Insider A set of ghostly, futuristic sails could help save California from drought October 6, 2016 By Dana Varinsky &#8220;Sails are one of the earliest ways humans seized the power of wind \u2014 people were using them to move boats across the sea even before the Middle Ages. A new design aims to apply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[75,86,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-75","category-business-insider","category-press-and-articles-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/landartgenerator.org\/newsevents\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}