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The Surprising Benefits of Air Purifiers

Here are several surprising benefits of air purifiers I have noticed after purchasing and using an air purifier/ionizer for the last few years. The best air purifier for you is usually not that hard to find with some basic research. Pets share our homes every day and bring with them pet odors, urine stains, and skin dander. For family members who have allergies, these odors can be upsetting and cause respiratory distress, which may result in a visit to the hospital...

The world’s largest air purifier sucks in smog and turns it into jewellery

The air we breathe is not as clean as it once was – and in many cases, it is getting worse. According to a recent study by researchers at UC Berkeley, smog kills about 4,000 people every day in China. And in the US about 4 in 10 people live in counties that have unhealthy levels of either ozone or particle pollution, according to the American Lung Association. To help clean up our air and make it breathable again, Dutch designer Daan...

China to deploy the world’s largest outdoor air purifier in Beijing

China will deploy world’s largest outdoor air purifier designed by a Dutch engineer in its smog- hit capital Beijing, as the thick heavily-polluted haze returned to haunt the city, driving people indoors. The seven-meter-tall tower, brainchild of Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde, is undergoing last-minute checks in Beijing’s 751 D Park art area. The ‘Smog Free Tower’ will soon be opened to the public, and will be toured across the country, state-run Global Times said, quoting China Forum of Environmental Journalists,...

Smog-free tower: China to deploy world’s largest outdoor air purifier in Beijing

Cina will deploy the world's largest outdoor air purifier designed by a Dutch engineer in its smog- hit capital Beijing, as the thick heavily-polluted haze returned to haunt the city, driving people indoors. The seven-meter-tall tower, brainchild of Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde, is undergoing last-minute checks in Beijing's 751 D Park art area. The 'Smog Free Tower' will soon be opened to the public, and will be toured across the country, state-run Global Times said, quoting China Forum of Environmental Journalists,...

One-quarter of air purifiers fall short of quality standard

One-quarter of air purifiers sold on the domestic market are substandard, an inspection by China's top quality authority showed. The inspection, conducted in the first half of this year, found 15 of the 61 batches of products were substandard, according to the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine. This is the first time that the administration has organized a national quality inspection aimed at air purifiers, and the inspection covered most well-known air purifier brands available in China, said Zhang...

‘Smog Free Tower’, largest air purifier in Beijing, sparks controversy

A "Smog Free Tower" undergoing tests in Beijing's famed 798 art zone has sparked controversy amid continuous heavy smog in the last couple of days. The seven-meter-high metal structure, designed by Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde and introduced to the Chinese capital as the world's largest air purifier in late September, opened for testing and adjustment recently. The tower boasts a capacity to purify 30,000 cubic meters of air per hour and an ability to capture at least 75 percent of PM 2.5...

Static Electricity: A Spark of Interest

We’ve all have experienced static electricity in one way or another. Those unexpected little shocks we get when we touch a doorknob or some other metallic object, the balloons that stick to the wall after being rubbed in the head, or hair itself standing straight when it comes close, all are produced by static electricity. Most of the time it is produced when two objects come in contact or are rubbed together. What is Static Electricity? All materials are made up of...

Air Purifier Bike

Recently, a website published 2013 annual consumption China keywords. Among them, the "haze" on the list. The data show that the national Amoy friends against the haze of a spent 870 million yuan. Masks, air purifiers, indoor treadmills and other goods were bought 4 million 500 thousand times. The haze from the north to the south of the way that the diffusion. One weekend I call Shenzhen buddy ride together, he was relentlessly rejected -- recently is haze, I got...

Heavy smog for days to come

As pollution has darkened the skies above Northern China since Wednesday, Beijing issued a blue alert on Thursday. And forecasts say the heavy smog won't be dispersed by cold weather till next Monday. According to the national meteorological center, this round of air pollution blankets a number of provinces in northern China, to include: Beijing, Liaoning, and Shandong. The concentration of hazardous PM2.5 particles, exceeded 300 micrograms per cubic meter on Friday, indicating severe pollution hovering over the capital. In an...

Beijing to have world’s biggest air purifier to fight smog

China will deploy world’s largest outdoor air purifier designed by a Dutch engineer in its smog-hit capital Beijing, as the thick heavily-polluted haze returned to haunt the city, driving people indoors. The seven-meter-tall tower, brainchild of Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde, is undergoing last-minute checks in Beijing’s 751 D Park art area. The ‘Smog Free Tower’ will soon be opened to the public, and will be toured across the country, state-run Global Times said, quoting China Forum of Environmental Journalists, an NGO...