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Re:Selling bottled fresh air to China by mmanfrin on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @05:57PM (#10748025)
There's an irony in shipping practically-empty bottles in trucks farting out smog to a region buying them because of smog.
Re:Selling bottled fresh air to China by phkn1 on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @06:36PM (#10748264)
Assuming for a minute that bottled air is a viable solution to smog, it's only the prestige of "exotic Canadian air" that necessitates the long shipping distance. Bottling filtered air from a relatively local source might work... but only if your factory could generate net negative emissions.

And anyhow, to have a health impact, we're talking about large quantity concentrators for those lug-around supplemental oxygen machines. These look awfully small to have any impact long term:

http://vitalityair.com/products/bottled-goodness.html

Anecdotal: I once tried purchasing a similar Oxygen can at a high-altitude ski resort as a sort of "stamina inhaler" on a heavy powder day. A good puff would return one's breath to normal pretty quickly, but the can ran out after a few hours of occasional use. So, at best these can be used as an ersatz, non-medical inhaler.

On the other hand, the market for air filters is still booming.

Re:Selling bottled fresh air to China by adevine on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @06:11PM (#10748108)
Yeah - imagine the energy and resources needed to pack and ship bottles of air halfway around the world, all because your current country is too polluted.