Comments on: LIVING AIR FILTER: Bel-Air Mini Mobile Greenhouse

By: shanghui

shanghui — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:56:09 +0000

Living air filter is a filter that using plant to act as an agent in filtering air. There are mini greenhouses that take in polluted air into their humid mini-environments and filter out contaminations. Sometime we really use it, it will be an advantage to us but if we think about the effectiveness filtering in our live is something not really important. Why I say so? This is because this kind of idea is more suitable for the space travel and space flights. In the earth is really nothing more can help our greenhouses. But it also can help a little bit. After you read through my comment you will know what I thinking about. I did not said it is good to us but just not necessary need it in our life or in this recent year. We have not seen the important of this creation.
As I know living air filter is using fan to blow air in and out the filter to make fast the process of filter. Using fan means using electricity to doing work. All electric’s component will eliminate heat to atmosphere than contribute heat to our greenhouse. Why not we use more plant to filter the air and eliminate using electricity. I think that is doing useless step where you use the fans to give the filtering and the plant are inside the container. Can we try the plant is outside the container than using the natural wind to move the air, so that we can reduce using electricity. Try to seed more plant around your room. It is that can give the same target as living air filter. This only no using a little electricity but also give the same aim of the result.
For the second comment is something about the problem lighten of light. Some of the house is close tight foe example air conditioners room. Those rooms must close every time, so it will give less light to the living air filter. Thus, the plants do less photosynthesis than less filtering happens. If the room is enough white light so we are not care about it. But usually the air conditioner room is lighted as yellow or orange color light. This will lower the effectiveness of filtering. Actually the plants are most suitable of the white color light to give the highest rate of filtering. Besides that, the plants have their specific atmosphere that suitable to them. It is suitable for the living air filter to the rooms that have air conditioners? Can they live in this condition? Will they give the same effectiveness of filtering as origin filter in this condition? Or do we have others plant to choose in seeding inside the living air filter and give the same effectiveness?
The next comment is also talk about the plant. As a healthy plant every day we need to take care of it. Every day we need watering and fertilizing. Is that we need to do every day? Some people naturally love to take care the flowers and plants, which is good to them to have a living air filter. But it is different to those not really love or lazy to do so. As a plant, after we use in long period the plant inside the living air filter will die away. So we need to seed a new one and it will take time to grow up. Is that necessary to wait so and do so? Usually the plant will be the best habitat to some organisms. If unfortunately it will bring diseases to human or others. May be it will give worse to us.
The last comment is something about result of living air filter. The living air filter is good in filter the small particles like toxin but not filter dust and big particles. I trust in the future it will combine with the filter that concentrates to filter the dust and others big particles. We using the living plant to filter the toxin is it bring effect to the plant? It will affect the concentration of the plan than affect the process of photosynthesis. The plan have chance to die or become unhealthy plants.
Those comments are my negative thinking of it. But actually the idea is not so bad to me. For me it is interesting. I think it is better if we implement solar-powered fan to reduce using the electricity from power stations. Besides that, it is good idea if we are using the living air filter as a decoration in our house. Maybe it will create the mini garden in our house. The living air filter is better open out to give the natural wind to take a work. We can see the big living air filter already exist in our live. For example, the public toilet and hospital are seeded of many plants. But for this living air filter is using the same concept in different presentation.

By: Ice

Ice — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:19:07 +0000

The filter has the plant with speacial soil that sucks harmful gases in the room plus pollen and dust the regular filter sucks. :-) Just know it DUH!

By: Ice

Ice — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:16:36 +0000

The plant in the filter has soil that sucks harmful gases in the house and also the pollen and dust a regular filter sucks.

By: jessie

jessie — Sat, 24 May 2008 12:40:39 +0000

I agree with the others, if the device uses external power sources it’s not worth the effort. Possible a solar power source would help make this more efficiant.

By: Alisa

Alisa — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:06:05 +0000

I would love to try one of these out? Are they available anywhere?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:10:04 +0000

Really, plants aren’t good enough in pots?.

What are you people thinking?

WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE USING LESS, Not producing little plug in trinkets out of plastic to make us feel better about the “world we inhabit”. There are some serious problemsthat needs to be addressed in the world and these will be made even more serious by ignorant design and consumption. Wise up and be a bit more responsible.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:32:40 +0000

Come on now, it’s not that bad as a concept. Not too much of a stretch to see it made of recycled or bio-plastic. Even with a tiny fan powered by the new Solar Foil it would create quite enough circulation to make it much more efficient than just hanging a plant about. The air is only getting worse out there.

By: happy

happy — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:34:11 +0000

Kat, yes I have always wondered if there was a way to bring plants indoors. I am very excited about this breaking development!

By: Kat

Kat — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:19:58 +0000

happy, are you being facetious? i just pictured someone pondering “if only plants could live indoors. how could one accomplish such a feat?”

i do like the look. they’re pretty cute little pods. does it actually suck in air, though? is there anything about this that makes it better than a plant in a pot, just doing it’s thing?

By: gopz prasoon

gopz prasoon — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:20:53 +0000

a plant in the room should work better than the design.nyways the innovation z always welcome!

By: happy

happy — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:00:31 +0000

This is an awesome Idea. I’ve often gazed out of my window at the plants outside and wondered could there be a way to bring something like that inside.

I digg it!

By: chetan parrikh

chetan parrikh — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:39:14 +0000

exellent innovation. congrates

By: Erik van Lennep

Erik van Lennep — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:15:41 +0000

Nice thought, rushing headlong up the wrong track. Why do we need to “justify” the natural functions of plants and other organisms by housing them in artifice? I agree with the others who ask: “why not just ave a lot of plants in the room ? “

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 19:35:58 +0000

Need to be clear that it’s fun as an concept/ art piece….like Natalie J’s lamp, but as W & Daniel pointed out, as an air filter, the “pod” part of the piece adds nothing and actually uses energy that plants alone don’t. Also it would restrict plant growth. And quite frankly, you’d need a lot more plants..in or out of pods…to get any measurable change in your environment. Reminds me of those useless negative ion generators folks are supposed to hang around their necks to filter their “personal” air.

By: Annie

Annie — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:11:55 +0000

…not to mention that it appears to be made of plastic…