Breakthrough technology in the service of China
An example of Chinese environmental innovators may be useful for guiding emissions-affected industrial enterprises in Russian regions. In the city of Xi'an, a prototype hybrid installation of urban air from harmful emissions and smog was launched.
The air "vacuum cleaner" is at the experimental stage of the project, but has already improved the purity of the city's air by 19%. The Xi'an "anti-smog vacuum cleaner" itself is an 18-meter-high pipe and glass roofs with solar collectors with an area of about 10 square kilometers. The installation works like this: it sucks in dirty city air and passes it through a pipe through a filter system, where at an eighteen-meter height it releases purified air into the atmosphere of Xi'an. The environmentally friendly energy for the "anti-smog vacuum cleaner" is provided by the sun, whose rays are captured by a system of panels installed on the roofs.
The cost of this environmental installation in every sense is about $ 2 million, which is not so much for the budget of the Chinese city. According to estimates, up to ten such plants may be needed to completely remove harmful emissions from the city of Xian.
Skeptical doubts are expressed mainly in terms of the appropriateness of using passive solar energy and the need to divert huge sections under it. However, the very principle of cleaning the urban atmosphere is interesting, and the need for it seems undeniable. Residents of the city exhausted by the emissions of Chelyabinsk, for example, would be glad to see a dozen new pipes in the city that would not poison it, but for a change - they would clean it.
The air "vacuum cleaner" is at the experimental stage of the project, but has already improved the purity of the city's air by 19%. The Xi'an "anti-smog vacuum cleaner" itself is an 18-meter-high pipe and glass roofs with solar collectors with an area of about 10 square kilometers. The installation works like this: it sucks in dirty city air and passes it through a pipe through a filter system, where at an eighteen-meter height it releases purified air into the atmosphere of Xi'an. The environmentally friendly energy for the "anti-smog vacuum cleaner" is provided by the sun, whose rays are captured by a system of panels installed on the roofs.
The cost of this environmental installation in every sense is about $ 2 million, which is not so much for the budget of the Chinese city. According to estimates, up to ten such plants may be needed to completely remove harmful emissions from the city of Xian.
Skeptical doubts are expressed mainly in terms of the appropriateness of using passive solar energy and the need to divert huge sections under it. However, the very principle of cleaning the urban atmosphere is interesting, and the need for it seems undeniable. Residents of the city exhausted by the emissions of Chelyabinsk, for example, would be glad to see a dozen new pipes in the city that would not poison it, but for a change - they would clean it.
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