Recent studies have found that as many as three million people die prematurely due to air pollution, every year. Other research put it in slightly more understandable terms: breathing in downtown Beijing can be as bad for your lungs as a two pack-a-day smoking habit, or about 40 cigarettes.
The smog tower obviously isn’t the solution to air pollution — these things could never offset the large-scale pollution of a major world city. However, they can create small pockets of lowered smog concentration throughout city. People can walk through these bubbles, reportedly smelling the difference, which could end up being a powerful awareness-building issue. If the stick of the chance to be one of the 0.017% of all people who die from air pollution every year doesn’t work, perhaps the carrot of pleasant air will work.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...ch&mailingID=541E3C29AB3A0DD7E955CD207C1E3C87
The smog tower obviously isn’t the solution to air pollution — these things could never offset the large-scale pollution of a major world city. However, they can create small pockets of lowered smog concentration throughout city. People can walk through these bubbles, reportedly smelling the difference, which could end up being a powerful awareness-building issue. If the stick of the chance to be one of the 0.017% of all people who die from air pollution every year doesn’t work, perhaps the carrot of pleasant air will work.
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...ch&mailingID=541E3C29AB3A0DD7E955CD207C1E3C87
