World’s First “BioSolar Leaf” To Deal With Air Pollution

Arborea, a startup from Britain, is carried out a pilot project on the campus of the Imperial College London to put to the test its newly developed “BioSolar Leaf” technology. As the project happens, the pilot will demonstrate how pioneering technologies are dealing with air pollution as well as other environmental and social issues.

The system, which is the first of its kind, makes use of microscopic plants to take away pollution from the air. At the same time, it could also produce food ingredients. This is great news as the system not only help tackle carbon missions but also deal with the hunger problem in the process.

Arborea’s system requires growing microscopic plants like phytoplankton or microalgae, on solar panel-like designs so that they can be placed anywhere that solar panels would go.

With the photosynthesis process, these plants take carbon dioxide out of the air while also producing oxygen for breathing. As stated on the website of the startup, one acre of their system can clean as much as air as 100 acres of trees.

But cleaning the air is just one in many benefits of the BioSolar Leaf technology. Another plus point of this technology is that it can generate an organic protein that can be extracted and used to make food products that are plant-based.

In a news release, Julian Melchiorri, Arborea CEO, said:

He continued: