Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde will be taking the world's largest air purifier on a tour of China to alleviate the country's worsening air pollution situation.
Roosegaarde previously visited China in 2014 and his view of the city from his hotel room on the 32nd floor was totally obscured by the smog.
"It was all gone," Roosegaarde says. "The city was completely covered with smog."
The Smog Free Tower, the world's largest smog vacuum cleaner, will create bubbles of clean air in inner-city parks and intends to bring awareness of the dangers of air pollution.
Designed by Roosegaarde, the Smog Free Tower is a 7-meter-high equipment that "uses patented ion technology to produce smog-free bubbles of public space, allowing people to breathe and experience air for free," the product description reads.
Last year, the tower has just had a pilot run in Roosegaarde's hometown of Rotterdam, Netherlands, where his company, Studio Roosegaarde, is headquartered and it had a surprising effect.
"For some reason, little rabbits find the space around the tower particularly intriguing. I don't know why. Perhaps they can feel the difference," he says.
Using ion technology, the tower is designed to attract and capture small pollution particles -- PM2.5 and PM10 -- and releases clean air, boasting a 75 percent cleaner surrounding.
"Basically, it's like when you have a plastic balloon, and you polish it with your hand, it becomes static, electrically charged, and it attracts your hair," the artist said.
The environment-friendly equipment can clean around 300,000 cubic meters of air per hour, which the designer describes as "a small neighborhood a day." It runs on just 1,400 watts of power, which is no more than a tea kettle.
Supported by China's Ministry of Environmental Protection the Smog Free Project China Tour will start in September 2016.
Photos: Studio Roosegaarde
Source: CNN Money
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