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The issue of air pollution in China has been worsening in recent years, with the country forced to issue a red alert warning in January 2017 regarding toxic smog. A wide array of illnesses has been associated with air pollution, including dementia, Alzheimer\u2019s and death. Studies reveal that by 2050, around 6.6 million people will die each year du\"\"e to this problem. Thus, the development of air purifying technologies has become a critical need.<\/p>\n

The country has taken various measures to address the problem\u2014only last year, China shut down 40 percent of its factories that failed to meet emissions standards, and announced the intention to ban non-electric cars. A year prior, in October 2016, Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde<\/a> installed a 23-foot (seven meters) high tower in a creative park in Beijing that took in polluted air and released it without the dust particles. The installation produces about 282.5 cubic feet (eight cubic meters) per second and was entirely powered by electricity generated by coal-power plants in China. Still, the amount of power needed to run was very little. This particular project inspired the Chinese officials to look further into the tower solution.<\/p>\n

A year after Roosegaarde\u2019s tower worked its magic in Beijing, a larger one was erected in the Shaanxi province in central China. South China Morning Post reports that the tower is 328 feet (100 meters) tall, and reports show it has a positive impact on the air quality in surrounding areas. However, researchers at the Institute of Earth Environment at the Chinese continue testing the tower\u2019s efficacy\u2014it appears that the tower improved air quality over an area of 3.9 square miles (10 square kilometers) in the nearby city of Xi\u2019an, and produced 353 million cubic feet (10 million cubic meters) of clean air per day. From the installation of the tower and until now, air pollution dropped by 15 percent. A more detailed data set is anticipated to be released in March.<\/p>\n

The installation uses greenhouses to clean the air\u2014these cover about half the size of a soccer field around the base of the tower. Polluted air is sucked into the glasshouse and heated up by solar energy, then rises through the tower and passes through multiple layers of cleaning filters. In addition, the eye-catching tower is very quiet.<\/p>\n

During the cold winter months, pollution is at its highest level in Xi\u2019an as it relies on coal for heating. Yet, the tower operators assure that, even though solar, the system will work as coatings on the greenhouses enable the glass to absorb solar radiation at a much higher efficiency.<\/p>\n

The tower wave doesn\u2019t stop here\u2014the facility in Xi\u2019an is mostly a pilot for what\u2019s about to happen\u2014a full-sized tower of 1,640 feet (500 meters) in height and a diameter of 656 feet (200 meters) is in the planning stages. The lush greenhouses could spread across roughly 11.6 square miles (30 square kilometers) and the plant should be massive, able to purify the air for a small sized city.<\/p>\n

However, in a recent report, the environmental watchdog Greenpeace announced that even though air pollution in Beijing, Tianjin and more than two dozen surrounding cities dropped dramatically in the last quarter of 2017, overall the country saw only a tiny improvement in air quality for all of 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina\u2019s national air pollution action plan has brought massive reductions in pollution levels and associated health risks, but policies favoring coal and heavy industry are holding back progress,\u201d Huang Wei, Greenpeace\u2019s East Asia climate and energy campaigner, said in a statement. \u201cNationwide, 2017 saw the slowest air quality improvement on record,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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