Gallery: This Tower Purifies a Million Cubic Feet of Air an Hour

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    Daan Roosegaarde worked with scientist Bob Ursem and European Nano Solutions to create the Smog Free Tower.
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    The tower, shown here in Rotterdam, sucks pollution from the air into its chambers and purifies it.
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    The air is sucked in from a ventilation system at the top of the tower.
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    And then it enters a chamber where the pollution becomes positively charged before latching onto grounded electrodes. The particles then becomes trapped in the chambers while the clean air escapes.
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    Smog.
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    Roosegaarde is compressing smog particles into jewelry, because why not?
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