{"id":28220,"date":"2016-07-24T00:48:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T07:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/why-turning-chinas-smog-into-diamonds-isnt-as-crazy-as-it-sounds"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:04:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:04:15","slug":"why-turning-chinas-smog-into-diamonds-isnt-as-crazy-as-it-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/why-turning-chinas-smog-into-diamonds-isnt-as-crazy-as-it-sounds","title":{"rendered":"Why turning China\u2019s smog into diamonds isn\u2019t as crazy as it sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hl5u9PU0SqQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde has come up with an innovative plan to tackle Beijing\u2019s air pollution problem \u2013 and in doing so, turn a health hazard into a thing of beauty.<\/p>\n<p>After a pilot in Rotterdam, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.studioroosegaarde.net\/project\/smog-free-project\/info\/\">Smog Free Project<\/a> is coming to China. The project consists of two parts. First, a 7m tall tower sucks up polluted air, and cleans it at a nano-level. Second, the carbon from smog particles is turned into diamonds. Yes, diamonds.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2016\/06\/why-turning-smog-into-diamonds-isn-t-as-crazy-as-it-sounds?utm_content=buffer507f2&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2016\/06\/why-turning-smog-into...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde has come up with an innovative plan to tackle Beijing\u2019s air pollution problem \u2013 and in doing so, turn a health hazard into a thing of beauty. After a pilot in Rotterdam, the Smog Free Project is coming to China. The project consists of two parts. First, a 7m tall tower [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1507,1495,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental","category-health","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61067,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28220\/revisions\/61067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}