Smog eating pavement?! Whaaaat?
What if the solution to smog was right where the rubber meets the road? Dutch scientists are thinking of a way to reduce smog , and they found the perfect way ! SMOG EATING PAVEMENT.Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology outfitted one block in the city of Hengelo, Netherlands, with paving blocks sprayed with titanium oxide, which has the ability to remove pollutants from the air and turn them into less harmful chemicals. The researchers left normal pavement on an adjacent street as a control.After taking measurements for a year, the scientists found that the street outfitted with smog-eating paving blocks, also called photocatalytic pavement, reduced nitrogen oxide air pollution by up to 45% in ideal weather conditions and 19% over the course of a day. Nitrogen oxides also known as NOx are a group of poisonous gases produced by cars and power plants that react with other compounds in the atmosphere to form smog.
What i think? This is a really great improvement in technology because if we put this around the world the atmosphere will be way better for the earth. Smog is a really bad pollutant to the atmosphere and this smog eating pavement can prevent our atmosphere from getting any worse. If we put this in L.A imagine how much this would help. I think this is really interesting because im learning all this stuff about human footprint and how cars affect this planet alot, and this pavement can reduce the pollutants
What i think? This is a really great improvement in technology because if we put this around the world the atmosphere will be way better for the earth. Smog is a really bad pollutant to the atmosphere and this smog eating pavement can prevent our atmosphere from getting any worse. If we put this in L.A imagine how much this would help. I think this is really interesting because im learning all this stuff about human footprint and how cars affect this planet alot, and this pavement can reduce the pollutants