Smog-hit Beijing shows sunsets on a giant TV

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It's like something out of Bladerunner:

Smog-hit Beijing shows sunsets on a giant TV to remind people what the sun looks like

Pics Air pollution is so bad in Beijing that the authorities are offering their suffering citizens a view of the sunset on a massive LED display in Tiananmen Square – apparently to remind them of what the sun and sky look like.



"I couldn't see the tall buildings across the street this morning," a traffic coordinator named Zhang told The Daily Mail. "The smog has gotten worse in the last two to three years. I often cough, and my nose is always irritated. But what can you do?"

Zhang's nose is righteously vexed for good reason: concentrations of the particularly dangerous particulate matter known as PM2.5 soared above 500 micrograms per cubic meter in the Chinese capital on Thursday. Beijing's US Embassy recorded a high of 671 µg/m3 at 4am Thursday, The Mail reports.

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continued: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/17 ... d_sunsets/