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> “We’ve gotten a lot of requests from property developers who want to place it in a few filthy rich neighborhoods of course, and I tend to say no to these righ
by SCHiM 11y ago
> “We’ve gotten a lot of requests from property developers who want to place it in a few filthy rich neighborhoods of course, and I tend to say no to these right now,” he says. “I think that it should be in a public space.”
I love the idea if it's really as healthy and good as the article makes it appear. But it immediately saddens me to see such a short-sighted attitude.
Why not sell it to the 'filthy rich' and then with that money build some more in public spaces? In the end you have more air purifying towers than if you only built them in public parks. Not to mention that, obviously, air moves around. So it doesn't much matter where you put the things.
- akiselev 11y agoThis. Hell, you'd probably sell a lot more by jacking up the price to 10x the cost of production/distribution instead of 3x and donating several purifiers to deserving communities for each one sold to the filthy rich. On the other hand, this looks less like a common appliance purchase and more like a $10-20 thousand piece of capital equipment, so all bets are off.
- wisty 11y agoI'd imagine it's more time constrains - maybe he's still doing bespoke work. Also, Beijing and Mumbai could be quite valuable clients.