Clean-up Bicycle – an Inventive Idea

Earlier today I came across a great idea — a bicycle which while being used is actually scrubbing the air we breathe…I call it the clean-up bicycle

There are many processes that are being developed and/or investigated to come up with efficient methods for CO2 scrubbing.  The summary description in the online Wikipedia shows a summary on several of them

The interesting part is that the young artist from the UK has figured out how to harvest energy generation from bicycles to assist the electric version of the CO2 scrubbing process.

 Matt Hope

Hope's respirator on two wheels uses the same principle as power stations in cleaning up the air. As the cyclist pedals, a mini-generator attached to the back wheel creates electricity for the high-voltage transformer in front that generates a static charge called the corona charge.

A mesh container attached to the pannier rack attracts dust particles, which stick to a metal trumpet. The air, now cleansed, is propelled along a tube to the mask that the cyclist wears.

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