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A 100-metre high air purification tower in Xian in Shaanxi province has helped reduce smog levels in the city, preliminary results suggest
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[quote]The head of the research, Cao Junji, said improvements in air quality had been observed over an area of 10 square kilometres (3.86 square miles) in the city over the past few months and the tower has managed to produce more than 10 million cubic metres (353 million cubic feet) of clean air a day since its launch. Cao added that on severely polluted days the tower was able to reduce smog close to moderate levels.[/quote]
[quote]The system works through greenhouses covering about half the size of a soccer field around the base of the tower.
Polluted air is sucked into the glasshouses and heated up by solar energy. The hot air then rises through the tower and passes through multiple layers of cleaning filters.[/quote]
Quotes in the article from one student who says the air has changed a lot and a teacher who says it hasn't.
[img]https://cdn2.i-scmp.com/sites/default/files/images/methode/2018/01/16/34ee8322-f9ea-11e7-b2f7-03450b80c791_972x_192228.jpg[/img]
[url]http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2128355/china-builds-worlds-biggest-air-purifier-and-it-seems-be-working[/url]
This is a version that is a proof of concept and smaller than what they'll build next. Behold the future.
[img]https://www.thetimes.co.uk/imageserver/image/methode%2Ftimes%2Fprod%2Fweb%2Fbin%2F487e6b12-facd-11e7-9a34-94e1b34681c3.jpg?crop=675%2C380%2C0%2C35&resize=685[/img]
Also there was another thing like this a year ago but smaller: [url]http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/01/technology/smog-free-tower-china/index.html[/url]
Ironic how it kind of looks like a smoke stack.
This is dystopian as fuck. I dig it.
Also good on them for working on that shit.
I had no idea such structures have been made. Pretty neat!
I wonder how often they'll need to change the filters on it
Something about this tweaks the "physics says you can't do this" in the back of my mind.
[QUOTE=GunFox;53058747]Something about this tweaks the "physics says you can't do this" in the back of my mind.[/QUOTE]
Yea, I want to see an actual simulation of this. Sounds like another Chinese scam lol.
this is some blade runner shit
It's full of convicts who just stand there, breathing in all day.
I'd honestly say it would be far more effective and cheaper to stick that filter on the things making the smog and not try and suck smog out of the air.
Has the notion "Maybe invest all of that money in preventing the smog in the first place" been answered somewhere?
I'm afraid that in the future, inventions like these will set the precedent that it's ok to pollute, because these filter towers are just gonna suck up all of the smog. Eventually resulting in more pollution than ever before, and smog towers that can't keep up.
[QUOTE=GunFox;53058747]Something about this tweaks the "physics says you can't do this" in the back of my mind.[/QUOTE]
It's probably possible to some extent, but it doesn't seem like it'd be noticeably effective unless you have tons of these. They really need to try to reduce the source of the pollution instead.
[QUOTE=Killuah;53058903]Has the notion "Maybe invest all of that money in preventing the smog in the first place" been answered somewhere?[/QUOTE]
the people who did this are a university research team. They are not the Chinese government nor do they work for companies causing the problem, but the tower is a (pricey looking) proof of concept and if it works as hoped, it's at least a bandaid that could be applied to areas affected harshly and see immediate effect, instead of sitting around waiting for an overall issue to slowly recede
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I feel it'd still be useful even without mass plant pollution issues, I recall a story of a town at the bottom of a basin/valley getting co2 poisoning because they went a week or two without wind carrying away their vehicle emissions or a nearby plant's otherwise safe output and it all just kinda pooled in the area or something
It just sucks that we need these towers at all, that unfettered corporate growth led to many deaths and now unassisted unaffiliated groups are saying "Now we can pick up the trash left by greedy corporations!"
Never mind that the metaphorical "trash" has killed thousands of Chinese men, women, and children.
hey chinese government do you accept suggestions for a redesign
[t]http://combineoverwiki.net/images/c/c0/Airex_tower_large.jpg[/t]
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