It's thought that
a smog tower of this size could clean the air for an entire small city.
If the testing results continue to bear out over time, the Academy group behind
the smog tower hopes to build a much bigger version measuring 500 meters tall and 200 meters wide, with the greenhouses feeding it covering some 30 square kilometers.
Anecdotal evidence gathered by the South China Morning Post was mixed when it came to the efficacy of
the smog tower, with some residents claiming to not notice any difference in the air quality, while others said «the improvement was quite noticeable.»
Not exact matches
To help clean up the air, Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde created a 23 - foot - tall air purifier called the
Smog - Free
Tower in 2015.
«By charging the
Smog Free
Tower with a small positive current, an electrode will send positive ions into the air.
Last week, the Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde debuted his «
Smog Free
Tower» in Beijing's 798 arts district, a former industrial zone.
One of the latest in this array of pollution problem solvers is a
tower that takes in
smog and releases clean air.
Virtual floods, smart highways and
smog sucking
towers: how can we examine and activate solutions to improve daily life in urban environments?
One effort, which at the time was touted as being the world's largest air purifier, has yielded a 7 - meter tall
Smog Free
Tower in Rotterdam, but when your country boasts of some of the worst air quality around, you have to go bigger.
The first 7 meter high
Smog Free Tower cleans 30.000 m3 of air per hour of ultra-fine smog, uses no more electricity than a water boiler, and runs on green ene
Smog Free
Tower cleans 30.000 m3 of air per hour of ultra-fine
smog, uses no more electricity than a water boiler, and runs on green ene
smog, uses no more electricity than a water boiler, and runs on green energy.