Interesting. But not the same.
You dont have "premium water" at the water treatment level, its literally drinking water and non drinkable water.
So in terms of air purification that would be "breathable air" and "non breathable" air.
Paying for breathable air, people would understand - and it would be something they could be made to do.
In theory. In practice its probably not.
Key differences:
- If you dont have clean drinking water, impact is visible almost instantly - if you dont have clean air to breath, maybe after 50 years of your life (or you die at birth, idk - hard to meassure, hard to sell).
- You cant do it through "air purification zones" (analogous to water treatment plants), because they don't work economically (industrial large scale air purification devices (run air thorugh centrifuges to filter out big particles, its funny) do too little in regards to what they cost).
- And you can't "own" the treatment work, because the next gust of wind, will move your work further along..
So the common good perspective of paying for "clean air" treatment is never quite thinkable. (Call it clean air tax, and prep up your car industry with it - maybe... Not sure people would react well, though.. )
Now, if we get to "premium water" in the 'Coke business' kind of way (scam ), thats possible and thinkable (Airbars, canned air, ...), but people still arent dumb enough.
(The way Coke got people to drink bottled water, was to hand it out to students for free for a couple of years, so everyone else started to associate it with "intelligent people" and higher value than normal water. )
And selling air filters is a business already. You can buy those, if you think, that you need them.
Differences are to large.
Also there is no urgency. Air isn't getting worse im Europe or America, so there will be no rising demand. (Apart from making it a marketing bubble.)
Thats where the is this thread clickbait?! Sentiments came from.
You dont have "premium water" at the water treatment level, its literally drinking water and non drinkable water.
So in terms of air purification that would be "breathable air" and "non breathable" air.
Paying for breathable air, people would understand - and it would be something they could be made to do.
In theory. In practice its probably not.
Key differences:
- If you dont have clean drinking water, impact is visible almost instantly - if you dont have clean air to breath, maybe after 50 years of your life (or you die at birth, idk - hard to meassure, hard to sell).
- You cant do it through "air purification zones" (analogous to water treatment plants), because they don't work economically (industrial large scale air purification devices (run air thorugh centrifuges to filter out big particles, its funny) do too little in regards to what they cost).
- And you can't "own" the treatment work, because the next gust of wind, will move your work further along..
So the common good perspective of paying for "clean air" treatment is never quite thinkable. (Call it clean air tax, and prep up your car industry with it - maybe... Not sure people would react well, though.. )
Now, if we get to "premium water" in the 'Coke business' kind of way (scam ), thats possible and thinkable (Airbars, canned air, ...), but people still arent dumb enough.
(The way Coke got people to drink bottled water, was to hand it out to students for free for a couple of years, so everyone else started to associate it with "intelligent people" and higher value than normal water. )
And selling air filters is a business already. You can buy those, if you think, that you need them.
Differences are to large.
Also there is no urgency. Air isn't getting worse im Europe or America, so there will be no rising demand. (Apart from making it a marketing bubble.)
Thats where the is this thread clickbait?! Sentiments came from.
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