Remscheid -- An Industrial De-Pollution Capital?

This project details the futures of more than 100 cities and towns across the globe as they fight to overcome all the grave socio-environmental challenges of the 21st century. As part of this process, we highlight the future of the German town of Remscheid.

The Future of Remscheid -- Complete With A 'Remscheid Robot'

If you visit Remscheid in 100 years in the future, you will find myriad varieties of mobile machines, dubbed 'Remscheid Robots', vigorously sucking in all manner of anthropogenic pollutants from the atmosphere (including carbon dioxide) then recycling these pollutants into benign chemicals, and transforming them into raw materials for various new products.

A 'Remscheid Robot' Sucking-in Global Warming Gases from the Atmosphere

However, after many decades of development -- with gigantic investment from both governments and private companies -- the machine capture of gaseous pollutants is exposed a gigantic diddle. The robots and thier ecofriendly products start leaking massive quantities of carbon dioxide, carnob monoxide, nitrous oxide and all manner of other nasty chemicals == all killing people in the town and halting neither global warming nor urban pollution.