• Brick made partially out of Beijing smog
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[QUOTE] For the last 100 days, the activist, whose real name is Wang Renzheng, has used the industrial appliance to extract dust and other lung-choking pollutants from the city’s atmosphere before transforming them into a dark brown “smog brick”. [/QUOTE] [IMG]http://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2015/12/03/09/nut-brother1_0.jpg[/IMG] Source [url]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/01/chinese-vacuum-cleaner-artist-turning-beijings-smog-into-bricks[/url]
Nothing will change though.
Not really "thin" air
Brick made out of thick air :v:
Wonder how toxic the brick is. China Could build houses with it :v:
Fart brick
I wonder what that brick represents as far as time/volume for an average person to breathe [quote]Wang Renzheng, ... better known as Nut Brother[/quote] cultural translation is a harsh mistress
I wonder if the amount of energy the machine uses to make the brick produced less or more pollution than the brick itself, that is the real question... If that makes any sense.
[QUOTE=HazzaHardie;49247645]Not really "thin" air[/QUOTE] polluted air is thinner iirc just like misty air is thinner
He looks like he's made out of cardboard.
[QUOTE=mix999;49247893]I wonder if the amount of energy the machine uses to make the brick produced less or more pollution than the brick itself, that is the real question... If that makes any sense.[/QUOTE] Generally with machines like this the energy you get out of burning things and producing gas/pollutants is similar to the energy needed to turn them back into a solid form.
"Made in China"
[QUOTE=logokiller;49248032]"Made in China"[/QUOTE] Made from China
[QUOTE=dai;49247830]I wonder what that brick represents as far as time/volume for an average person to breathe cultural translation is a harsh mistress[/QUOTE] from what i understand he went around for like a year vacuuming, and this wasn't even all he's done with the soot
Workingb around heavy congestion in Beijing is like being a chain smoker.
Makes you wonder how the Communist Parties State Run Media will spin this.
It's an interesting article, but not really what it's made out to be at all. "[URL="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-smog-is-so-bad-in-beijing-that-someone-made-a-brick-out-of-it-a6758451.html"]On the 100th day, 30 November, the artist mixed the collected dust with clay before taking it to a brick factory[/URL]" So it's basically a "Pollutant-infused" brick, not a "Pollutant" brick.
[QUOTE=Deiru;49248170]"[URL="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-smog-is-so-bad-in-beijing-that-someone-made-a-brick-out-of-it-a6758451.html"]On the 100th day, 30 November, the artist mixed the collected dust with clay before taking it to a brick factory[/URL]"[/QUOTE][I]Oh.[/I] Well that changes this story a bit. I mean yeah I get the point and everything but a brick made out of [I]pure pollution stolen from the very air it was poisoning[/I] is a hell of a lot more significant than a clay brick with some bullshit cut in...
I'm starting to think the Guardian is sliding into a shitty clickbait site, some of the stuff that they've put out has been either partially incorrect or just complete horseshit. [editline]4th December 2015[/editline] god damn you matthew
[QUOTE=JumpinJackFlash;49248282]I'm starting to think the Guardian is sliding into a shitty clickbait site, some of the stuff that they've put out has been either partially incorrect or just complete horseshit. [editline]4th December 2015[/editline] god damn you matthew[/QUOTE] eh, they're usually one of the better news sources, but even then they have their sensationalist days.
[QUOTE=Deiru;49248170]It's an interesting article, but not really what it's made out to be at all. "[URL="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-smog-is-so-bad-in-beijing-that-someone-made-a-brick-out-of-it-a6758451.html"]On the 100th day, 30 November, the artist mixed the collected dust with clay before taking it to a brick factory[/URL]" So it's basically a "Pollutant-infused" brick, not a "Pollutant" brick.[/QUOTE] goddammit
[QUOTE=HybridTheroy;49247897]polluted air is thinner iirc just like misty air is thinner[/QUOTE] Intuititively I would say no. Water vapour is a gas, and thus behaves like a gas. Pollution is mostly dust, which consists of particles consisting out of millions of atoms, and thus have a higher density.
That's one good looking brick.
[QUOTE=DrDevil;49251353]Intuititively I would say no. Water vapour is a gas, and thus behaves like a gas. Pollution is mostly dust, which consists of particles consisting out of millions of atoms, and thus have a higher density.[/QUOTE] Oxygen and Nitrogen are heavier gases than H2O. As the amount of H2O in a unit of air increases, O2 and N2 decreases, Avogadro etc etc. More lighter molecules means the unit of air weighs less, which means it's less dense.
[QUOTE=DrDevil;49251353]Intuititively I would say no. Water vapour is a gas, and thus behaves like a gas. Pollution is mostly dust, which consists of particles consisting out of millions of atoms, and thus have a higher density.[/QUOTE] No, [misty air (at least)] is less dense because the air itself is taking up less space due to other particles (that's my understanding of it anyway). Ask any veteran longboarder/cyclist/etc, you move through the air much easier when it is humid.
[QUOTE=EcksDee;49252041]Oxygen and Nitrogen are heavier gases than H2O. As the amount of H2O in a unit of air increases, O2 and N2 decreases, Avogadro etc etc. More lighter molecules means the unit of air weighs less, which means it's less dense.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=HybridTheroy;49252611]No, [misty air (at least)] is less dense because the air itself is taking up less space due to other particles (that's my understanding of it anyway). Ask any veteran longboarder/cyclist/etc, you move through the air much easier when it is humid.[/QUOTE] I don't disagree with that. The amount for gas molecules in a gas is the same, no matter what the gas is made out of. And as H2O is lighter as O2 or N2, humid air is less dense.
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