New to clean the air: Smog Free Tower and Smog Free Bike

You will often read the name of the Dutch designer Daan Roosengaarde, often among the pages that talk about east and pollution, in particular China and Beijing.

In addition to having brought his "air cleaner" to Beijing in 2016 - or a gray tower with an original appearance, renamed "Smog free tower", already present also in Rotterdam, capable of eliminating smog, sucking it from above and throwing out clean air on all four sides - in the same way Roosengaarde devised, in 2017, the bicycle able to clean the air, Smog Free Bike, all ecological, which works with the sole force of the pedals and legs.

As reported by Dezeen, within this immense " Smog free project", Daan's smog-eating bike is still in the conceptual elaboration stage, but would work in a similar way to the previously mentioned tower, making sure that the the air around the cyclist and breathed by him is safe and clean .

From China to India: air

"The bike is a perfect model", reports the designer at Dezeen, it would in fact have a double function: to clean the air on one side and reduce the effects of congestion in an energy-friendly way.

The announcement at the World Economic Forum and then the collaboration with Tsinghua University have definitively sanctioned the go ahead for the works.

In fact, a bicycle will be created that will have a front module capable of aspirating polluted air, filtered to reduce the carbon content, then transformed into clean air and expelled towards the cyclist.

After the great success in China, the Roosengaarde studio will soon open a new tower in India and therefore the projects are to make it known also to South America, particularly in Colombia and Mexico (source Wired.co.uk).

The designer's greatest future desire will be to apply the functionality of the Smog Free Tower and bike to buildings and housing units.

Italy, is the air clean?

Between Sundays on foot and cycle paths in the cities, meetings, conferences and forums on what is polluted and data on emissions: what is being done again in the old boot to clean the air?

Retracing the ranking of the most polluted provinces (released at the beginning of the year but which refers to 2016 data), Turin, Frosinone and Milan are the big black spots .

Followed by other cities that have crossed the line: Venice, Vicenza, Padua, Treviso and Pavia. A reversal of direction for some cities, such as Pavia, which, although still present in the sad classification, finds a return to clean air, thanks also to a policy of speed moderation in the areas just outside the center, the establishment of new pedestrian zones, the presence of 95% of methane heating.

Another important step will be to make public transport using commuters energetically sustainable and to optimize services to facilitate travel to the elderly. Italian design to purify the air?

Here is Clairy, the intelligent vessel made by the Italian startup Laboratori Fabrici which has a natural purification system inside.