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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.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Friday October 28 2016, @02:28PM
That's a fair point, but there again, it would make more sense to spend that money not buying things from countries with terrible environmental practices.
(Score: 2) by Sarasani on Thursday November 03 2016, @01:48PM
Yes, that would make more sense. And I try to not buy things that will break before their time is up/planned obsolescence. The thing is: it's getting harder every day to buy things that are NOT PRODUCED in such countries.
An example: a mate of mine wanted to buy an electrical sander from a large hardware chain. All the main brands were "Made in China". Now, I'm not necessarily equating "Made in China" with "junk" (although I have to say: it's pretty close to it). We, unfortunately, simply no longer have a choice in many instances. Want to buy a quality brand? No worries. Just remember that the vast majority of the products are coming off a huge conveyor belt that runs directly from China to [insert your country of residence]. What can we do. As consumers?