Air Quality is No Joke, It’s a Booming Business
In 1987, Mel Brooks cracked open a fresh can of “Perri-Air” as a comedy bit in Spaceballs.
Thirty-plus years later, as a joke, a ziplock bag of Canadian clean air was sold on eBay in China for $168. That joke turned into a business called “Vitality Air”. Vitality Air sells about $340K a year of canned air. Fun fact, if you only breathed Vitality Air canned air, it would cost ~1.6 million dollars a year. What was once a joke in a movie is now a global business.
It’s not just China buying clean air now — clean air is being distributed and sold worldwide. What once was a joke 33 years ago is now a global business.
I watch and trend our air now on PurpleAir. It’s a powerful site of crowdsourced air quality (they also sell the external and internal air sensors.) In our home, we have two Molekules running 24/7. I also replace our car cabin filters every six months. I used my flex spending account to pay for the Molekules and filters. They have made a dramatic improvement in our house, and a few friends of mine have experienced the same relief we enjoy.
As environmental challenges continue to mount, we’ve experienced a significant impact on our air quality. In the late ’70s, both US political parties came together to address smog issues and made sweeping changes that served us well for several decades.
Now it’s time to make repairing and protecting our environment a common goal and remove politics from the equation. As a global community, We can address these challenges while generating new jobs and strengthening our economy.
ps. The “Ludacris Speed” function on a Tesla is also a reference from Spaceballs.