In Fiction
There are many films and books talking about this very useful technique. There are some:
In Yann Martel's novel Life of Pi, the main character, Piscine Molitor Patel (Pi), survives on a life boat in the Pacific with a Bengal tiger by using twelve solar stills to extract fresh water from saline ocean water.
In the 2002 horror film 28 Days Later about a "zombie apocalypse" in Britain, Frank tries to use this technique after seeing it on television, but he is unable to use it properly.
Read more about this topic: Solar Still
Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)