Foliage: the solar-powered air conditioner that also purifies the air

    Warm goodbye, thanks to the new leaf-shaped solar air conditioner that also purifies the air

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    Hot and Afa, our two sworn enemies, at least for the next two months. But how to escape the grip of the heat without burdening the environment with the use of air conditioners and fans? Thanks to a leaf. Not just any leaf, it is clear, but a special device, which manages to produce clean and fresh air with solar energy.





    The idea has a somewhat explanatory name: Foliage. Born from the fervent mind of Rami Santala, the object, has a dual purpose. Clean the air of fine dust and impurities and in the meantime generate fresh air, boycotting theelectric energy and alternatively using only solar energy.

    Not a small idea if you consider that the air quality, even indoors, it is increasingly poor and less secure, and unfortunately the trend certainly does not go towards the path of improvement.

    Foliage: the solar-powered air conditioner that also purifies the air

    Difficult to call it a "conditioner" looking at it. With an evocative design, Foliage it resembles a large baking dish, but once opened it recalls the shapes of a plant, a cactus, if you like, but able to refresh us in a completely natural way.

    Its 'foliage of leaves' can change its shape to capture the sunlight. The energy produced is fed into the device to produce the air conditioning attached to the bottom.

    Foliage: the solar-powered air conditioner that also purifies the air

    Great to use during the summer, according to its designer, Foliage it is particularly suitable now, when there is an even greater need to use theconditioned air and especially when there is a greater availability of sunlight.


    It won't be one real plant, as it produces no sugar and oxygen, but fresh, clean air is a good substitute.


    Too bad it is still only one concept which, like the portable water-based stain remover, was presented atElectrolux Design Lab 2011, the competition for new ones appliances of the future. With the hope that this is in the near future.

    Francesca Mancuso

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