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posted by janrinok on Friday October 28 2016, @01:53AM   Printer-friendly
from the this-idea-sucks dept.

a team of Dutch inventors has unveiled a giant air-cleaning vacuum that they say filters out fine particle pollution from the surrounding air, but this project isn't about art, it's purely about functionality.

"It's a large industrial filter about eight meters long, made of steel... placed basically on top of buildings and it works like a big vacuum cleaner," Henk Boersen of the Envinity Group, the makers of the device, told the AFP.

The device can suck in air from a 300-meter radius and from up to four miles above and can clean 800,000 cubic meters of air an hour. It filters out 100 percent of fine particles and 95 percent of ultra-fine particles, based on prototype tests carried out by the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands.

All they need now is to build another two dozen coal-fired power plants to run the vacuums.


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 28 2016, @12:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 28 2016, @12:27PM (#419810)

    The earth has probably never had "pure air".

    Sure, and smog has been a widespread problem for thousands of years.

    This isn't an air purifier, it's an air cleaner. The goal is not pure air, the goal is to reduce the volume of manmade particulates [wikipedia.org] like soot from the air, to reduce the health bill caused by traffic and industry:

    In 2013, a study involving 312,944 people in nine European countries revealed that there was no safe level of particulates and that for every increase of 10 μg/m3 in PM10, the lung cancer rate rose 22%. The smaller PM2.5 were particularly deadly, with a 36% increase in lung cancer per 10 μg/m3 as it can penetrate deeper into the lungs

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 28 2016, @10:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 28 2016, @10:16PM (#419975)

    Wait, no, NONSENSE!!! Socialism, mainstream media, WW3, abortions.... whatever it will take to avoid the facts?