This Device Cleans The Air Using Algae

It's like a giant nose… for polluted cities. This Mexican invention could improve air quality around the world.

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00:00In its interior, there are 500 liters of algae that are capturing the pollution.

00:22In other words, we simulate that it is a very large nose, it is a nose that is installed

00:28in intersections or in places of high influx of people and they are breathing the pollution

00:35of the environment to inhale it in this system, which are the tanks, to be doing the photosynthetic

00:41process and later on, it is returning, exhaling a more oxygenated air.

00:58The idea of Biomitec and the creation of Biurban is born as a consequence of the fact that at a

01:05global level, mobility was being seen as an idea of being able to return the streets to the citizens,

01:14stop making cities for cars and start returning them to those who originally belong to them.

01:28The natural action of breathing is the one that is taking us, without sometimes noticing it and without

01:44wanting to, to breathe polluted air that is taking us in the long run to lung diseases,

01:51chronic diseases and even death.

01:58Pollution is not a local issue, it is neither my city nor my country, it is an issue that affects

02:09many people worldwide. We have called death caused by factors related to

02:16environmental pollution, such as slow death. Biurban is designed to try to prevent that from happening.

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