HIBT Lab! SOURCE Global: Cody Friesen

How I Built This with Guy Raz

Guy Raz | Wondery

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4.8 • 31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Water is all around us–quite literally, there is enough water in the air we breathe to meet all of humanity’s needs and then some. Engineering professor Cody Friesen invented a solar-powered device that captures this vapor and transforms it into drinking water. Cody began manufacturing these ‘hydropanels’ with his Arizona-based company SOURCE in 2014, and today they’re used in more than 50 countries worldwide.

This week on How I Built This Lab, Cody talks with Guy about the prevalence of water scarcity in the U.S. and around the globe, and his company’s work to become the world’s first renewable, fully-digitized drinking water utility. Plus, the two discuss how entrepreneurs should be thinking about the growing renewable energy market.

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0:00.0	What is actually going on with the economy nowadays?
0:04.4	The price of gas, inflation?
0:06.5	Are we in a recession?
0:08.2	I'm Jeff Quo, co-host of NPR's Planet Money.
0:11.2	Come along with our super team of econ experts
0:14.1	as we delve into the stories that show you
0:16.2	how the world really works.
0:18.6	That's Planet Money from NPR.
0:23.8	Hello and welcome to How I Built This Lab.
0:26.6	I'm Guy Razz.
0:28.1	So if you remember Tatooine, the desert planet in Star Wars,
0:32.5	water was a scarce resource.
0:35.2	Rain only came to Tatooine maybe once a decade.
0:38.8	So instead, the humans of Tatooine
0:41.0	would rely on moisture vaporators.
0:43.4	These were small towers that looked like rockets
0:46.2	that would capture water vapor from the atmosphere.
0:49.4	Now, the technology to make this happen
0:52.1	wasn't just theoretically possible.
0:54.9	It actually exists today and is in use
0:58.0	in 52 countries around the world.
1:00.4	It's a device called a hydropanel made
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