Page 69 - Moss News Today

In front of a load of moss. and to make sure the moss is as effective and long—lived as possible, the health of each moss mat can be monitored from hq. an algorithm can control the irrigation depending on the individual conditions. so, in the future, i would envision that many buildings and the facades of the buildings would be covered in our solutions. and of course you could also have motorways, large stretches. you could also use our moss filters to clean and cool the air, and maybe even pr...

To coincide with the UNs climate change summit in Egypt, Click explores some of the latest climate-friendly innovations. [S]

The world health organization says air pollution poses a major threat to health and climate, and it kills an estimated seven million people worldwide every year. now, were not all going to move back to nature — but what if we could bring nature into the cities? just outside berlin, this company is trying to freshen up our urban air. this is a biofilter which is sucking air in through the bottom and pumping it back out through this wall of moss. to illustrate that, weve got a smoke machine from...

Youre sitting in front of a load of moss. and to make sure the moss is as effective and long—lived as possible, the health of each moss mat can be monitored from hq. an algorithm can control the irrigation, depending on the individual conditions. so, in the future, i would envision that many buildings and the facades of the buildings would be covered in our solutions and, of course, you could also have motorways — large stretches. you could also use our moss filters to clean and cool the air...

As well as pulling pollutants out of the air, theres another advantage to these biofilters, too. heres a piece of moss and heres a thermal—imaging camera, and you can see the temperature is about room temperature. but, look, when i point this at the air thats coming out of the moss, when you switch the ventilation on, look how much cooler it is. so, not only does this clean the air, it cools it too. and of course, pulling pollutants out of the atmosphere could help cool more than just your loc...

Green city solutions have been growing moss up to 15 times faster than in nature. each moss mat takes just under 12 weeks to grow. and i have to say, theres something very soothing about being in their greenhouse. do you just come in here and stroke the moss? when im stressed. cool about moss is that this plant doesnt have roots, so they can capture all nutrients through the walls, leaves or leaves surface. so, you can imagine, like the normal plants, it takes the nutrients from the earth, but i...

Moss eats pollution. it sticks to its tiny leaves. its absorbed, digested, and then is turned into more moss. so, as fans draw dirty air in, the bad stuff is left on the moss leaves, leaving cleaner air to flow back out. the idea of using moss natural filtering properties came to the founder after he went for a jog. so, i was in shanghai and i did a lot of exercise outdoors to get back in shape, so go out for runs. and after i think two or three months, i started to have difficulties breathing a...

So, now we are going to take a sample. you? i can do it? for sure. lets tweeze some moss. got some. perfect. now we can have a look under the microscope. there we go. and its in the lab where well get to see moss�*s super power. the plant acts a lot like a human lung, whose high surface area can absorb a lot of the air in one go. and just like the lungs of a smoker, which end up getting blackened by tar, moss could act like the lungs of a city, eventually being covered in the stuff that we don...

Now, were not all going to move back to nature — but what if we could bring nature into the cities? just outside berlin, this company is trying to freshen up our urban air. this is a biofilter which is sucking air in through the bottom and pumping it back out through this wall of moss. to illustrate that, weve got a smoke machine from the local discotheque. and if i just show you... there you go. its going in through the bottom and out through the moss. and what happens to the air as it comes ...

So, in the future, i would envision that many buildings and the facades of the buildings would be covered in our solutions and, of course, you could also have motorways — large stretches. you could also use our moss filters to clean and cool the air and maybe even protect it from noise. moss on its own wont solve the climate crisis, but in amongst the talk of inventing greener technologies, it may be worth taking a lead from something thats been right under our feet the whole time. after all, ...