Over the past century, globally air standard has become unhealthy. A chief example is sulfur dioxide emissions. Every year more than 4.6 million people die due to the direct exposure to the air pollution. It is clear that the poor air quality is damaging the lives of people worldwide. Today, air pollution is on the rise in developing countries. While, the developed countries are also grappling to slow it down.
Many different air pollutants are created as a result of these activities.
Carbon dioxide (CO²) is a major know greenhouse gases and contributors to the climate change.
Nitrogen oxide, including nitrous oxide (N2O) is another greenhouse gas that is nearly 300 times as effective as CO2.
Sulfur dioxide (SO2) is mostly formed due to burning of coal that leads to the formation of acid rain.
Methane (CH4) and other similar substances are mostly formed by decaying organic materials in landfills.
Carbon monoxide (CO), a highly deleterious odourless gas found in exhaust fumes.
Airborne particles (such as PM 2.5) that are solid or liquid particles in the air including all sorts of things from soot to dust that get suspended in the air P.M 2.5 refers to any particle with particles less than 2.5 micrometres.
While air pollution is set off to constitutive issue for modernity, the technology that can help to eradicate is advancing at rapid speed.
Here are some inventions and innovations are helping to solve this problem.
Vertical Forests
What causes Air pollution ?
Air pollution is caused mainly due to the increased numbers of car and other vehicles, burning of fossils fuels along with powerplant, industrial complexes, solid waste and agricultural waste are also a huge contributors in the air pollution
What are the main air contaminants ?
Air pollutants should not be something that has a straight influence on human health. It is directly a stuff in the air that can have a detrimental outcome on either human health or the vast environment.
Many different air pollutants are created as a result of these activities.
Carbon dioxide (CO²) is a major know greenhouse gases and contributors to the climate change.
Nitrogen oxide, including nitrous oxide (N2O) is another greenhouse gas that is nearly 300 times as effective as CO2.
Sulfur dioxide (SO2) is mostly formed due to burning of coal that leads to the formation of acid rain.
Methane (CH4) and other similar substances are mostly formed by decaying organic materials in landfills.
Carbon monoxide (CO), a highly deleterious odourless gas found in exhaust fumes.
Airborne particles (such as PM 2.5) that are solid or liquid particles in the air including all sorts of things from soot to dust that get suspended in the air P.M 2.5 refers to any particle with particles less than 2.5 micrometres.
While air pollution is set off to constitutive issue for modernity, the technology that can help to eradicate is advancing at rapid speed.
Here are some inventions and innovations are helping to solve this problem.
Vertical Forests
Vertical forests are designed for the environmental survival of contemporary cities by the Italian architect Stefano Boeri.
In addition to looking really cool, vertical forests have many potential environmental benefits. Vegetation can absorb carbon dioxide from the air, preventing the gas from causing additional greenhouse heating into to filter airborne particles either by catching them or absorbing through pores in the leaf surface.
The effectiveness of diverse vegetation to absorb these air contaminants has been found to vary. But architects like Stefano Boeri work very carefully to select the best plants, as well as designing the building for them and humans.
Stefano Boeri at present working on project to design an entire forest City in liuzhou, Guangxi province, China. As per the architect, the new city will be home to community of around 30,000 people with almost 1million plants and 40,000 tree's that absorb almost 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide and 57 tons of contaminants and generate around 900 tons of oxygen annually.
Electric cars
One of the keys to shrink air pollution levels is by reducing the numbers of cars that runs on fossil fuels. 80% of airborne particulates emissions is caused due to the road transportations worldwide. This is mainly due to older dirtier vehicles that causes huge emissions. This is on top of all the greenhouse gases emissions that all vehicles emits directly from the exhaust. This air pollution becomes worse when there is crowded and with cities increasing population, the level of crowd and air pollution is increasing fastly too.
A major feature of the future cities will be electric cars. Electric vehicles not only causes zero direct emissions, they have a shorter life cycle emissions. When electricity is derived from a renewable source.
According to a report the electric car sales will take up 57% and electric buses by 81% in 2040 globally.
Bike sharing
To prevent the street from getting checked with electric cars, we will need a mixture of diverse transportation options. This may include tram, trains.
But with trams and train limited to particular routes and cities growing, so big that walking is also becoming unstable. Other methods of transportation is necessary to restrain people from using cars or taxi which are continuing to air pollution.
Another environmental advantage of moving towards a shared economy is, it minimise the carbon footprint of production.
Smog free Tower
To help prevent clean air and make it breathable again Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde created the smog-free project as campaign in the wish to motivate people to believe how to get cleaner air in public spaces.
The smog-free plan accommodate a number of innovations, but the most striking and memorable was the smog-free tower.
The air purifier called smog-free tower. The tower like device essentially soak up the smog like a vacuum and release the filtered air.
Capturing pollution to create ink
Air-ink from Graviky Labs is the first ink to be made by considering carbon. Based on gaseous effluents created by air pollution.
Labs use their patented KAALINK technology that seizes particulates from air. In fact, they say that there unit can seizes 99% of particulate matter pollution.
KAALINK is designed to fix in a stack of diesel generators, car tailpipes or fossil fuel chimneys, seizing the contaminant before mixing into ambient air. This particles case is stockpiled in the unit and then used securely as an ink.
25 hours of driving can create 1.5 litres of ink. This is good, but it shows that how much particulates matter is exhausted from car.
Air cleaning buildings
Titanium dioxide is now being frequently used element in paint and building substance that can remove pollutants from the air. Titanium dioxide is an expensive substance which cost up to 5% but it has a extraordinary property. It reacts with some forms of air pollution in the presence of light to nullify them.
Vertical forests are designed for the environmental survival of contemporary cities by the Italian architect Stefano Boeri.
In addition to looking really cool, vertical forests have many potential environmental benefits. Vegetation can absorb carbon dioxide from the air, preventing the gas from causing additional greenhouse heating into to filter airborne particles either by catching them or absorbing through pores in the leaf surface.
The effectiveness of diverse vegetation to absorb these air contaminants has been found to vary. But architects like Stefano Boeri work very carefully to select the best plants, as well as designing the building for them and humans.
Stefano Boeri at present working on project to design an entire forest City in liuzhou, Guangxi province, China. As per the architect, the new city will be home to community of around 30,000 people with almost 1million plants and 40,000 tree's that absorb almost 10,000 tons of carbon dioxide and 57 tons of contaminants and generate around 900 tons of oxygen annually.
Electric cars
One of the keys to shrink air pollution levels is by reducing the numbers of cars that runs on fossil fuels. 80% of airborne particulates emissions is caused due to the road transportations worldwide. This is mainly due to older dirtier vehicles that causes huge emissions. This is on top of all the greenhouse gases emissions that all vehicles emits directly from the exhaust. This air pollution becomes worse when there is crowded and with cities increasing population, the level of crowd and air pollution is increasing fastly too.
A major feature of the future cities will be electric cars. Electric vehicles not only causes zero direct emissions, they have a shorter life cycle emissions. When electricity is derived from a renewable source.
According to a report the electric car sales will take up 57% and electric buses by 81% in 2040 globally.
To prevent the street from getting checked with electric cars, we will need a mixture of diverse transportation options. This may include tram, trains.
But with trams and train limited to particular routes and cities growing, so big that walking is also becoming unstable. Other methods of transportation is necessary to restrain people from using cars or taxi which are continuing to air pollution.
Another environmental advantage of moving towards a shared economy is, it minimise the carbon footprint of production.
Smog free Tower
To help prevent clean air and make it breathable again Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde created the smog-free project as campaign in the wish to motivate people to believe how to get cleaner air in public spaces.
The smog-free plan accommodate a number of innovations, but the most striking and memorable was the smog-free tower.
The air purifier called smog-free tower. The tower like device essentially soak up the smog like a vacuum and release the filtered air.
Capturing pollution to create ink
Air-ink from Graviky Labs is the first ink to be made by considering carbon. Based on gaseous effluents created by air pollution.
Labs use their patented KAALINK technology that seizes particulates from air. In fact, they say that there unit can seizes 99% of particulate matter pollution.
KAALINK is designed to fix in a stack of diesel generators, car tailpipes or fossil fuel chimneys, seizing the contaminant before mixing into ambient air. This particles case is stockpiled in the unit and then used securely as an ink.
25 hours of driving can create 1.5 litres of ink. This is good, but it shows that how much particulates matter is exhausted from car.
Air-ink from Graviky Labs is the first ink to be made by considering carbon. Based on gaseous effluents created by air pollution.
Labs use their patented KAALINK technology that seizes particulates from air. In fact, they say that there unit can seizes 99% of particulate matter pollution.
KAALINK is designed to fix in a stack of diesel generators, car tailpipes or fossil fuel chimneys, seizing the contaminant before mixing into ambient air. This particles case is stockpiled in the unit and then used securely as an ink.
25 hours of driving can create 1.5 litres of ink. This is good, but it shows that how much particulates matter is exhausted from car.
Air cleaning buildings
Titanium dioxide is now being frequently used element in paint and building substance that can remove pollutants from the air. Titanium dioxide is an expensive substance which cost up to 5% but it has a extraordinary property. It reacts with some forms of air pollution in the presence of light to nullify them.
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