How This Beetle Could Help Solve Our Water Crisis | Evolutionary Tech 

Bug: it ain’t much but it’s honest work

Bug: *just living it's life Scientists: THIS INSECT CAN SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS

2:25 "We're far away from that still.. Um, or, we're getting closer" He suddenly realized people who funded his research could also probably watch this video

Nestle about to sue that beetle cause water isn't a "human right"

Seuoia and Redwoods also “drink fog...” Nature’s so smart.

Animals just living their life: People: Ooh, I bet we can use them to make human lives better.

Bear Grylls : by eating this beatle we get hydrated

Thirsty Hooman: Nooo u cant just drink from fog Chad Beatle: Haha me go glug glug

Pulling water out of thin air? Avatar: The Last Airbender S03E08: "Chapter 8: The Puppet Master"

Can it be that the beetle can somehow lower the temperature of the outer upper shell so that it can condense the water vapour

Bug: So yeah that's how I drink. Scientist: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN

If I remember correctly, doesn't that beetle burrow at night below the surface? As it's not warm blooded I would imagine there is a thermal difference in its exoskeleton and the air that would help condensation. The ridges probably serve more to funnel the condensed water down towards the head so it can drink, which is why it raises it's abdomen up at a 45 degree angle as well.

that process is called BIOMIMICRY and been used in every aspects of life nowadays and it's proven so effective

what happens when we start pulling fog and humidity out of the air on a mass scale? the problem is that our demand for water is unsustainable...

0:28 "it can pull water out of thin air" thunderf00t : "only with that stupid exoskeleton?, ....it's debunking time !! "

Beetle when the fog rolls in: "Face DOWN, ass UP"

Nope. Then you're just gonna end up sucking all the fog out of the air.

This is truly great news, I dare say everyone loves water and everyone hates fog, win win.

Thank god you uploaded video and that's not on COVID-19 because in every section of u-tube there is this topic. Glad to see something new.😊

If One Piece taught me anything, it's that this can only lead to a princess becoming an assassin and then a pirate in order to save her country from a brutal civil war and facilitate the ultimate battle between a monkey and a crocodile.

This is incredibly cool how this beetle works. I hope this gets learned from in our lifetime and creates a brand new way to capture fresh water

Very interesting video, watched and enjoyed it. Thanks!

"It turns out the beetle that has the bumps isn't the beetle that fog-basks..." People that funds his research: "Wait so... You didn't realise that... earlier." Scientists: *Sweats* *profoundly*

I've seen alot of Earth Documentaries & have seen beetles shown doing this in deserts, I never really thought of how they do it. I just figured they live in the desert & have adjusted by getting water how ever they can.

Came here to figure out how to drop the exhaust out of my car, now I’m in my back seat learning about beetles from another continent

I believe they are missing a important part. The thermal condutivity of the surface plays a role in the moisture capture. If a object is capable to assimilate and dissipate the heat from the moisture, the water will condensate in this object.

What is your top solution for the water crisis?👇 Education/Awareness. New Conservation Technologies. Recycle Wastewater. Improve Irrigation and Agriculture Water Use. Water Pricing. Energy Efficient Desal Plants. Rain Water Harvesting. Community Governance and Partnerships.

1960s : In future we have flying cars 6 decades later.... 2020 : we depend on beetles to solve world water crisis

He's thirsty,parched but still smiling. Great man

Bruh just open your mouth the fog comes in and you eat it🤓

We have to learn from Mother Nature! It’s our responsibility to take care of it!

Good research

Whenever we humans are stuck with a seemingly unsolvable problem, we should always look to Mother Nature for guidance.

When I exercise, I have water droplets forming on my body, I invert myself and just let it slide down into my mouth

Beetle: hahaha, human took you long enough to figure our million of years of evolution secrets.

TY 🙂

Could it be maybe where the beetle sits on the dune? My uneducated guess would be maybe the subtle winds push the fog against the dune, the fog gets a bit denser due to it being pressed against the dune, and maybe the beetle sits in a spot where the fog is denser and can collect more efficiently

Nature is full of mystery unsolved

Such great computer graphics!

So these beetles can water bend. Cool

i thought that the exoskeleton would just become a little hotter and then it would turn the fog that sticks on the shell into water. clearly it is a lot harder than that.

Why is this not super popular like I feel so educated right now

#under rated video.... only 44k uuhhhh too bad, for such a good discovery.

Random bug in the desert : I can collect water out of thin air. Nestle : I want that bug.

I would hypothesize that they play with their body surface temperature to make it colder and more likely to condense water. I would investigate if their exoskeleton doesn't use a "trick" akin to how Skycool can use heat from the sun to cool the air.

My clothes always get moist in the fog when I go for a walk. Maybe it's so hot from collecting heat in the day time, and it's body shape and shiny black exterior helps keep it warm? So maybe it's still hella hot, and it walks up these hills and the windy fog gets forced into the heat and collects on the grooves? It can't just be the shape that matters, cause it's bumpy cousin doesn't do this, but it has better fog collecting exoskeleton? Very puzzling, and significantly interesting.

Seems like there's more going on than just surface bumps alone on the exoskeleton of the beetle. Temperature differences for example? What about studying plant life for extracting fog water from the air? Nara desert melon : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wJk7wAUMXGw.html Nara plant : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GjWaJgzW3Fg.html Attracting the fog water droplets using electrically charged surfaces makes it a 100% effective fog catcher : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NBhFxXT9mUQ.html

You'll be making the air more dry. Any thoughts on how that may affect the ecosystem?

This is what kind of science I love and not Sending rockets or something fictional. I hope goverments would invest more in these project to make this world a better place

Cool

Nice

Trees are naturally hydromagnetic, they can pull water from miles under ground and bring in rain clouds. a 50 acer lake only has so much water, once drained its gone. But a 50 acer forest you can keep on draining water as long as the trees are there. By creating an artificial hydromagnetic field you could regreen any desert area. Hydromagnetic fields are easy to make.

Does it have an impact on local weather if used at large scale?

Thunderf00t : Let's test Superhydrophilicity (near 0 contact angles) with atomic scale measurements to see if water covalently binds to the surface. I will be using Wenzel's equation to shows that macrostructuring a surface amplifies that natural tendency to collect water. Still, people are willing to pay millions and millions get a "magical breakthrough in technology" also called A DEHUMIDIFIER.

Is there a way to use temperature differential to make fog heavy enough to rain?

Me who thought the beetle cools its body so fog condenses on him... (i was so wrong...lmao)

I think that if you solute the water with some lond of other chemicals you can lower or raise its boiling point, and I guess also the capscity to better unify water molecules? Maybe the beetle produces some kind of compound that helps trapping the water?

Looks like the beetle is cooling its exoskeleton to create condensation. Either by using wings or an organ of some kind. It might be pumping cooler air through that crevice on its back between the front and middle legs. Then rapidly pushing the air out towards the rear repeatedly. Idk

mhmm tho fog must too be a huge deal for the local ecosystem and if fog is taken in large portions, then this practice might rect that ecosystem no??

Another example of animals and nature influencing our technology

If you've ever driven through fog for a long period of time your going to have to turn your wipers on for a sec because of the water it collects. I wonder if they thought of using glass

Is it possible to over-collect fog? Could we theoretically pull so much fog out of the air that it changes the ecosystem, or is it sort of endless?

Sir can I order 10 billions Beetle right away?

So based on simple maths, the average water content in the atmosphere is ~8.5 grams per liter or more accurately based on proper unit 0.0085 kilograms per litre and the average human needs approximately 3 litres of water per day, so do a little magic and voilà, you have to dehydrate ~353 cubic meters of air per person per day. Now since the water content in the air is in a gradient, and of course varies by geographical region, this is not quite so simple based on altitude and climate. The water carrying potential is directly proportional to the air temperature and it's pressure, I have nice charts showing the values, but for the Sahara desert, one would have to evacuate all the water vapour from 1325 cubic meters of air. Now of course you have to do this process in the day since the average humidity in the air can change up to 80%, pushing the air required to be dehumidifised to ~2385 cubic meters of air. Now agriculture is the largest use of water in the world next to transportation and of course sits in nice reservoirs called lakes, oceans, rivers, ponds. aquifers etc et al. A single lactating cow needs ~115 liters of water per day, so do the old maths magic again and a SINGLE lactating cow needs to have ~13,500 cubic meters of air dehumidifised per day, in the Sahara we require ~24,300 cubic meters of air dehumidifised. A market garden isn't as thirsty as a cow, but still requires huge amounts of water, imagine rice which rquires ~2,500 cubic liters of water to produce 1 kilogram of rice grains. An average human can eat up to ~180 kilograms of rice per year so that requires ~32,500 liters of water to produce that rice, which is 58,500 cubic meters of that is required to be dehydrated. Now these numbers are all getting ridiculous 0ly high, imagine the ludicrous numbers for a village of 300 families, their animals, their gardens and ancillary uses. This gets into the millions of cubic meters of air to continuously produce water just for ONE village. Now onto the big issue the real elephant in the room, the energy required to dehydrate the atmosphere of this water, now I picked a similar engineering process to dehydrating the air, in my case I chose desalinating sea water. The most effective and efficient way of desalinating sea watzr is with electricity. Now the numbers fornthis are going to be massively huge. The theoretical absolute minimum amount of energy required by natural osmosis to desalinate average seawater is approximately 1 kilowatt-hour per cubic meter (kwh/m3), the practical average is ~8.0 kwh/m3. Now based on industrial power rates, this translates roughly to $850.00 Canadian dollars per day per cubic meter of water desalinateed. Translate this process to producing water from the atmosphere and you immediately realise that this is a practical impossibility to do. Producing a few millilitres of water this way is one thing, but on on industrial scale not even slightly achievable. Now every community would basically require a future technology fusion reactor just to maintain the energy requirements. Oh my, I am tempted to calculate the energy costs for the approximate 4 billion people with water quality and quantity problems. I truly recommend that you consult the most brilliant hydrographic engineer, the most creative cost accountant, the most brilliant nuclear physicist, the most brilliant industrial and chemical engineers before you start on this project, you really are going to need them. Make sure that you have the world bank and all the world's bank resources, all the world's combined aid agencies budgets, and all the world's engineers together for what would be the world's largest and most expensive engineering project. I Based on costs, the amount of resources and the engineering and technological challenges, it would be cheaper, faster, easier and more manageable to desalinate sea water from the oceans with central fusion reactors and build massive pipeline infrastructure to pump this expensive and very precious fluid to the communities. Oh wait, now that you have paid for all of this and built all this infrastructure, it has to be maintained. This could be a very interesting graduate thesis combining engineering, economics, sociology, agriculture, physics, education and hundreds of fields of expertise with millions of workers. So this has been fun. Cheers from Canada.

I wonder if the researchers alevaluated the beetle's exoesqueleton composition. Maybe the shape it's not the key. Maybe the key is in the chemical affinity of the beetle's material and the water.

Even the colour is also plays a role black colour absorbe heat may be with the wind it can heat exchange to get water from fog

more over, electrostatically attracting the fog to the membrane/inlet would multiply yield. using a cockroft walton voltage multiplier.

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Build a giant beetle statue assuming the position. See how it works

I accidentally clicked this video, turns out to be interesting

Watching this while the whole of Cape Town's tap water has stopped running 😭😭😭

oh, so the jjba/jojo bizzare adventure manga creator made a reference to a beetle in part 6 to future sight the answer to our water crisis... N I C E

On seeing thumbnail, I thought about beetle band.

So how fog forms in a desert at the first place ? I need an answer plz

WOW

This has already been known. Decades ago there was this guy who dug a pit and lined it with plastic then put a tarp over it and it gathered the moisture out of the air.

I just wanna know who thought of looking at a tiny ass beetle and be like ... “let’s see if he catching water”

I am sure that there will be a day when the deserts will be agricultural fields

How about using Rain-X on a sheet of glass?

How much fog do we need to turn into droplets and make a full jag of water?

It's funny how this video comes out right after that story of Australian smart dudes made a porous mesh that is cheap and easy. Don't remember the link.

Great, let's keep modifying environments to suit our human needs while breaking the resilience of every environment we step on. It sounds like a good plan that's been giving us great results so far.....

0:04 get a mirror and let it condensate then lick the droplets 😂😂

Even bug in the nature can help to solve human's problem.... Thanks Mother Earth 🌎

1:09 You just got beetled

1:28 And you think that's a complicated formula? 😂😂😂

Its like drinking your own sweat but it's actually safe to drink

Nature is just

Thankful I’m able to just turn on the faucet and boom we have water...magic

But if we start capturing water from air, would we stop having rains ..........🤔🤔

Humans: “Ahhh welp we’ve taken all the water from the lakes and rivers. Ok let’s get the Fog from the plants”

They could push salt to the surface of their exoskeleton. Osmosis

plot twist : the beetle is alien and produces own water

What about the charge, maybe the body surface of the beetle might be charged by the winds and helps the beetle to attract micro droplets from the fog....

in a artificial system. could they use osmosis to collect water.

wow

Or you could just lick the water droplets off the beetles, if you have one nearby. Or just eat the whole beetle, then you get food and water at the same time.

Is the beetle changing it's internal temperature to condense the fog

Hunter King? It's a really cool name

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