Mega Super Air Purifiers!

Mega Super Air Purifiers!
By Josh Glazer

I have Air Purifiers in virtually every room of my private residence.  They work like a fan, sucking in air and then blowing it out, passing it through a series of filters designed to catch any fine particulates or odors.  They usually are a combination of a fine mesh pre-filter, a carbon filter for odors, and a final HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air) filter to catch particles as small as .3 microns.  I have to clean and change the filters regularly.  (I like breathing clean, relatively dust-free air.)

Now think of the fact that it has rained almost every day for the last year.  I know this to be true, because part of my side business used to be going to yard sales on the weekend and then reselling items on EBay.  However, starting around last July (2018), it has rained every weekend, ending all yard sales, and also flooding my garage twice, destroying half of my shipping boxes and merchandise.  The cleanup has taken all year, and is still a work in progress.

Where is all this rain coming from?  Why is it raining so much?

I am no climate scientist, but I think the answer is simple: we have poured pollution into our atmosphere with reckless abandon, and the many fine particulates combine with microscopic water droplets, forming clouds, and finally rain.  There is just way, way, too much, now.

What’s the solution?  What to do?!?

Why don’t we build some Billion Dollar Air Purifiers – all around the world?  With replaceable filters?  Essentially cleaning the air in the atmosphere, and then burying the discarded filters underground?  Much like how the earth’s atmosphere was naturally formed over the last few billion years – by gasses combining with organic material and then being buried underground in an oxidizing type manner (leaving our current mix of oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen, etc.).

This solution (of cleaning the air in the atmosphere with giant international air purifiers) seems so simple that I am amazed it has not been yet been at least publicly proposed or debated.  In fact, I can’t think of any publicly proposed solutions to our climate change problem – we are too busy arguing about whether the problem actually exists or not!  (Energy efficiency, aside.)

To really work, this must be an international effort.  The idea is simple, but the implementation, undeniably complex.  However, I would argue under the strongest terms that SOMETHING must be done about the pollution in our atmosphere, and what it is doing to our planet (and us).  I propose that we clean the air with giant purifiers, and then bury the used filters underground.  This would clean the air, and also keep the air relatively clean while we figure out better solutions.  Anyone got a better idea?