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The magic happens. 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 it did a lot of exercise outdoors to get back in shape. so go for runs and after i think two or three months i started to have difficulties...

Kills an estimated 7 million people worldwide every year. 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, we have a smoke machine from the local discotheque and if ijust show you, there you go, it is straining out through the moss. and as the air...

Thats when it clicked and i realized i have to do something about the air quality in cities. for the past eight years, 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 thing about moss is that this plan doesnt have roots, so they can capture all nutrients through th...

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 of the planet. and by binding those pollutants, we also help to decelerate climate change. youll already see these biofilters in ...

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Laughter. ..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 plants 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 we need this higher leaf—surface ratio to capture ...

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. they are pretty powerful, really. moss fan. yeah, i am, somehow! laughs 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 when i point this at the air that is coming out of the moss when...

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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 realise i have to do something about the air quality in cities. for the past eight years, green city solutions have been growing moss up to 15 times 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 an...

Have announced no alcoholic beer will be sold at world cup sites. big day —— the announcement comes two days ahead of the tournament. majorsponsor, budweiser, had a multimillion—dollar deal with the organiser, fifa, to sell its products at all venues. now on bbc news, click. as c0 p27 as cop27 winds up in egypt, this week we will look at some of the latest tech that is trying to clean up our planet. we will muster up a massive moss that is cleaning up mess in the air. moss that is cleaning...