Studio Roosegaarde Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:13:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Smog-Capturing Tower to be Built in Rotterdam https://www.greenoptimistic.com/smog-capturing-tower-rotterdam-20150731/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/smog-capturing-tower-rotterdam-20150731/#respond Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:13:14 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=56059 Carbon-harvesting, smog-capturing tower is soon to emerge in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. All carbon that is collected will then be turned into jewelry. Not too long ago, when Beijing smog was making the news nearly every day, there was a Dutch designer, Daan Roosegaarde, and his team at Studio Roosegaarde, who invented a technology that harvests […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/smog-capturing-tower-rotterdam-20150731/feed/ 0 56059 Dutch Designer Extracts Smog Particles, Turns Them into Jewelry https://www.greenoptimistic.com/dutch-designer-extracts-smog-particles-turns-jewelry-20141023/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/dutch-designer-extracts-smog-particles-turns-jewelry-20141023/#respond Thu, 23 Oct 2014 08:38:19 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=49818 Air pollution in the Chinese capital of Beijing is becoming a major disaster. Cutting down emissions from traffic and industry is no longer sufficient, and thankfully governmental officials acknowledge it. They set tough targets, pushing people to come up with incredible innovations, just like turning deadly smog particles into jewelry. Some time ago we told […]

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