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Laughs as well as pulling pollutants out of the air, i 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 when i point this at the air that is 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...

Faster than 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? laughs when im stressed! laughs the thing about moss is this plant doesnt have - roots, so they can capture nutrients through the leaves, or the leaves surface. so you can imagine the normal plants, it takes the nutrients from the earth, but this moss can capture everything. the second thing is, like e...

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 irrigation based on the individual conditions. 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 use our moss filters to clean and caught the air and it maybe protect it from noise. moss on its own wont solv...

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 did a lot of exercise outdoors to get in shape, i would go for a run and after i think two or three months i started to have difficulty 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 reall...

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 the local discotheque. and if i j...

Of moss thats mopping up the mess in the air. thats easy for you to say! well find out if hydrogen can do the heavy lifting. and check out our latest merch. and if you dont like the band, dont worry, the logo comes back off. once again, the leaders of the world have been coming together in an effort to fight climate change. as cop27 comes to a close in egypt, campaigners and climate scientists are warning some key commitments aimed at securing the future of the planet are at risk. in the year si...

Now we can have a look under the microscope. there we go. and its in the lab where well get to see moss superpower. 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. this is from one of our active products. and the black bits are the... exactly. this is the fine...

Cleaner air to flow back out. the idea of using moss�*s naturalfiltering properties came to the founder after he went for a jog. i was in shanghai and did a lot of exercise outdoors to get in shape, i would go for a run and after i think two or three months i started to have difficulty breathing. and that is when i thought maybe i caught the flu, maybe i caught a cold, and it kept on lasting until the point i really left china, left shanghai and went back to germany. and only after i came back...

Now we are 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, we have got a smoke machine from the local discotheque and if ijust show you, there you go, it going in through the bottom and out through the moss. and what happens to the air as it comes bac...

About being in their greenhouse. do you just come in here and stroke the moss? laughs. when i am stressed! laughs. the thing about moss is this plant doesnt have roots, so it can capture nutrients through the leaves, or the leaves�* surface. so you can imagine other plants, it takes the nutrients from the earth, but this moss, can capture everything. the second thing is, like every plant, moss can absorb co2 because it needs for photosynthesis for the energy, but the density of the moss is pre...