Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde plans to build and test a pollution-collecting system in smog-addled Beijing.
Billed as an "electronic vacuum cleaner" for Beijing's polluted skies, the so-called Smog system throws an unexpected solution at a complicated problem. Much in the same way that a static-charged balloon attracts hair, this pollution-devouring set-up uses copper coils buried under grass to create electrostatic field and attract smog particles to the ground. Once pulled from the sky, the particles can be compressed and repurposed.
Roosegaarde's Shanghai-based design firm, Studio Roosegaarde, recently forged an agreement with Beijing's mayor to test the concept in one of the city's parks. The set up should be capable of clearing a 22,500 square foot area of clear sky in the otherwise smoggy park, showing local citizens what life could be like without the pollution. "Here, the absence of the smog is the design and I like that," Roosegaarde says.
Source: Gizmodo
Billed as an "electronic vacuum cleaner" for Beijing's polluted skies, the so-called Smog system throws an unexpected solution at a complicated problem. Much in the same way that a static-charged balloon attracts hair, this pollution-devouring set-up uses copper coils buried under grass to create electrostatic field and attract smog particles to the ground. Once pulled from the sky, the particles can be compressed and repurposed.
Roosegaarde's Shanghai-based design firm, Studio Roosegaarde, recently forged an agreement with Beijing's mayor to test the concept in one of the city's parks. The set up should be capable of clearing a 22,500 square foot area of clear sky in the otherwise smoggy park, showing local citizens what life could be like without the pollution. "Here, the absence of the smog is the design and I like that," Roosegaarde says.
Source: Gizmodo
