Gold Medal in the World's Largest Invention Competition: a 14-Year-Old Chinese Boy Solved with Hardware Pipes What Engineers Have Not Been Able to Do in Arid Areas

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What if the trees we planted in the driest areas could “grow by themselves,” using only wind and air humidity? That’s essentially what Jia Mingxuan, a 14-year-old student from Inner Mongolia, in northern China, has achieved. Her condensation irrigation system, made with hardware steel tubes and reused plastic bottles, has not only won the highest youth prize at the iENA international invention fair in Nuremberg, it has also become a new tool for…