{"id":77899,"date":"2018-04-18T05:22:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T12:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/china-fights-big-smog-with-big-air-purifier"},"modified":"2018-04-18T05:22:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T12:22:36","slug":"china-fights-big-smog-with-big-air-purifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/china-fights-big-smog-with-big-air-purifier","title":{"rendered":"China fights big smog with big air purifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-fights-big-smog-with-big-air-purifier.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>China has a found a novel way to tackle its massive air pollution problem: Putting up a giant air purifier the size of an industrial smokestack in the middle of a smog-plagued city.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of pumping out billows of black smoke like the chimneys rising from factories in the northern province of Shaanxi, the 60-meter (197-foot) tall structure on the outskirts of the regional capital Xian blasts <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/clean+air\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">clean air<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Standing between high-rises, the device is capable of cleaning between five million and 18 million cubic meters of air each day, depending on the weather, season, and level of pollution, according to a report by the Chinese website Thecover.cn.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-04-china-big-smog-air-purifier.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;04-china-big-smog-air-purifier.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has a found a novel way to tackle its massive air pollution problem: Putting up a giant air purifier the size of an industrial smokestack in the middle of a smog-plagued city. Instead of pumping out billows of black smoke like the chimneys rising from factories in the northern province of Shaanxi, the 60-meter [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1507,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77899","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}