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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 dont want to breathe. so, this is from our one active products. and the black — the black bits are the... exactly. this is the fine dust or particles from polluted air. and these are the green cells...

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 its moss. it can capture everything. the second thing is, like, every plant, moss can absorb c02 because it needs for photosynthesis, for the energy. but the benefit is the density of the moss is pretty high, so...

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 local surroundings. air pollution and climate change are also directly related. we have pollutants in air pollution — for instance, black carbon, which speed up the heating o...

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 and thats when i thought maybe i caught the flu, maybe i caught the cold, and it kept on lasting until the point i really left china, left shanghai and went went back to germany. and only after i came back, i realised, "hey, theres definitely a connecti...

One active products. and the black, the black bits are the... exactly. this is the fine dust or particles from polluted air. and these are the green cells. and it means that the moss is still healthy because its green. but they are pretty powerful. really good. moss fan. well, yeah, iam, somehow! 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...

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, nat...

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 the local discotheque. and if i ju...

Do you just come in here and stroke the moss? she laughs. when im stressed. they laugh. whats cool about moss is that this plant doesnt have roots, so they can capture all nutrients through the walls leaves, or leaf surface. so, you can imagine, like, the normal plants, it takes the nutrients from the earth — but this moss, it can capture everything. the second thing is, like every plant, moss can absorb c02, because it needs for photosynthesis, for the energy. but the benefit is the density o...

So go out for runs. and after i think two or three months, i started to have difficulties breathing and thats when i thought maybe i caught the flu, maybe i caught the cold, and it kept on lasting until the point i really left china, left shanghai and went went back to germany. and only after i came back, i realised, "hey, theres definitely "a connection to the air quality in china and my personal health". thats when it clicked and i realised i have to do something about the air quality in citie...

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 its moss. it can capture everything. the second thing is, like, eve...