Our project, TUCO, has as its goal helping people with their respiratory health, turning their environment into a more healthy, productive and comfortable one, everything included in an affordable and accessible way, providing a better health quality to whoever get interested in it, so TUCO fits in the challenge “Purify the Air Supply”
In our searches we found out that NASA really cares about the air on their space stations and that’s a real concern they have, so we thought that we should care like that to those subjects here on Earth. Thinking about that, we created a display that will increase the air conditions of people. As a team, we thought that this particular challenge would be the best one, because with that we could think about a solution to the problems that we already know, thinking about our friend’s and ours experiences and struggles, to make the best project we can and do our best. We had inspirations on some of NASA’s articles of air purifying and the concerns of that, so we searched even more on others websites and others articles with others informations and after that we interviewed some friend with respiratory struggles so we could be more prepared for making a project to this kind of public and try to solve their problems. We used informations from NASA’s satellite pictures and found out the areas that are more affected by the carbon dioxide so we notice that this is an actual struggle and we must find a way to deal with this because it’s not too late yet. After that we searched on NASA’s site how they deal with these gases on theirs space stations and we found that they really care about this in the space so why shouldn’t we care about this on Earth?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720321215
https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2016/07/indoor-co2-dumb-and-dumber/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3548274/
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/long_duration_sorbent_testbed
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time/hazards-and-disasters/air-quality
https://airquality.gsfc.nasa.gov/
https://www.who.int/gard/publications/The_Global_Impact_of_Respiratory_Disease.pdf