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The main (and unique) point of this text is to discuss from a unified point of view the entire range of technologies in which porous media play an important role -- from geophysics (percolation of water and pollutants through the ground), to electronics (heat exchangers for integrated devices), from automotive engineering (catalytic converters) to biomedical engineering (natural and artificial lungs).