Tired of the air pollution ruining your day? Apparently Chinese engineers at the Beijing Huahang Radio Measurement Institute are fed up with it as well. They claim that new developments in laser radar technology will help analyze the floating particles that make China so smoggy and Beijing so unlivable.
The laser radar is a new measurement tool used to monitor airflow and analyze matter and other air pollutants. The narrow beam allows exact directivity and provides resistance to outside electromagnetic elements. So basically this laser can tell us that we should try our best not to breathe heavily, in case you couldn't tell from just looking out the window. And we should definitely not be smoking any bacon.
"The institute's leaders, seeing the huge potential of China's environmental protection market, have decided to utilize their radar expertise to help cities tackle one of their biggest concerns - PM2.5, particulate matter with a diameter smaller than 2.5 microns that can penetrate the lungs and harm health," says China Daily.
The new technology focuses on PM2.5, which was the largest contributor to air pollution in 74 monitored cities during the first quarter of the year.
In China, an average of 90 out of every 100,000 people could die prematurely from long-term exposure to smog. Globally, the effects of air pollution are estimated to have killed millions in recent years.
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