Home > Cool Tech > This enormous air purifier sucks smog from the air, turns it into cubes After visiting Beijing and experiencing the effects of smog first hand, the folks at Studio Roosegaarde were inspired to do something about this form of air pollution. For three years, the team worked on an indoor smog remover prototype, and now they are ready to take the project to next level. Led by Daan Roosegaarde, Studio Roosegaarde is raising funds on Kickstarter to fund the creation of the Smog Free Tower, the world’s largest outdoor air purifier. The Smog Free Tower will be built in Rotterdam, the Netherlands and will be travel around the world visiting cities where air pollution is a known problem. Powered now by wind power and possibly solar in the future, the tower will provide residents of these metropolitan areas with a small zone of very clean air that they can enjoy. The air in these “Smog Free Parks” is 75% cleaner than the polluted air in the rest of the city.

By experiencing fresh, clean air, Studio Roosegaarde hopes to raise awareness about the problem of smog. The Smog Free Tower is designed to be a zero wastes machine recycling the collected smog particles in Smog Free Cubes. The tower used patented ion technology that’ll remove the smog particles from the air. As a tangible reminder of smog, the Tower each day will collect and compress enough smog particles to form 3500 Smog Free Cubes. These cubes will be harvested and turned into a piece of jewelry, such as a ring or cufflinks. With enough time and pressure, the carbon in the dust can even be turned into a diamond. Related: From pollution to weather, next-gen wearables will tell us more about our world The Smog Free Tower Kickstarter project is in its final week of fundraising, thus far accruing 971 backers who have pledged more than $83,000 towards the project. Those who have supported the project can receive a Smog Free Cube, a Smog Free Ring and other swag depending on the chosen funding level.

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Now There’s a Smog-Sucking Tower That Turns Pollution Into ‘Diamond’ Rings Win for Big Cats: Laos Promises to Phase Out Tiger Farms See How SeaWorld's Killer Whales Can Go Home AgainLiu Min, an expectant mother in Beijing, is worried about her baby's future. She gets anxious when she thinks of the youngest lung cancer patient in China, who's only eight years old. Air pollution is definitely on the minds of Beijing citizens—and now it’s driven an artist more than 4,000 miles away to take action. Dutch designer and architect Daan Roosegaarde has created a 23-feet-tall, air-cleaning “Smog Free Tower” and he’s ready to ship it to Beijing if he gets a green light from the mayor’s office, with whom he says he’s had five rounds of talks. His tower works like a huge outdoor air purifier, and Roosegaarde says it can clean 30,000 cubic meters of air in an hour. That means in one-and-a-half days, it could clean the air contained in a typical football stadium. It works through ionization technology, similar to how hair sticks to a balloon’s surface.

The tower consumes a small amount of power, equal to a home-use water boiler. He says he has successfully cleaned a park in Rotterdam and now he’s looking for partners in China to build and install his towers there.The tiny toxic particles known as PM 2.5 can be inhaled into the lungs. Research from Berkeley Earth, a non-profit that conducts scientific investigations on climate change, shows that 1.6 million people die each year of air pollution in China—a harsh reality of modernization. Beijing has rolled out various measures, including tax reductions for buying hybrid cars, but the four-day stretch of smog at the beginning of December, the worst of the year, reveals there is still a serious problem. The choking haze is a scourge that residents like Liu Min know well.“I would really like to do it in Beijing first. It is the city [that] inspired me to do this,” Roosegaarde says, adding that he was convinced after more than two years of trips to the Chinese capital. Now he faces a new hurdle: the mayor’s office keeps postponing.

“It's a very sensitive, political topic.”He says he has been approached by air conditioner makers too, including household names in China such as Gree Electric Appliances Inc. and Broad Group, but he decided to work with public interests first, through local government and possibly Tsinghua University, who has also shown interest, according to Roosegaarde. “You have to build trust; it's China,” he says. Roosegaarde first came up with the idea of a Smog Free Tower while visiting Beijing as a speaker at a design event in 2013. He runs a studio in the Netherlands that produces design and architecture projects, with contracts and commissions from museums and local governments. The tower is the first project he started with his own money. In July, he listed the project on Kickstarter with a goal of raising 50,000 euros ($54,350) and it ended up raising 113,153 euros in two months. One of the rewards he offers donors is a ring set with a cube formed from collected smog particles, which are 42 percent carbon.