Can This Electric Bicycle Really Save The Planet?S  As you sit
in traffic on your way to or from work, you just know the person
who just flew by on a bicycle is smug. And now, a Bangkok-based
design firm wants to make riders even more smug with a bicycle
that actually cleans the air too.  The creative director of
Lightfog Creative & Design told Fast CoExist that this electric
bicycle uses photosynthesis, like plants apparently do. The idea
would be a big filter between the handlebars and immediately
behind buses and trucks spewing fumes or other foul odors. Those
smells would be absorbed by a filter that then sends the clean
air to waft around you.  It's just like having a big air
purifier on your bicycle. And makes about as much sense.  There
are some bigger problems. First of all, it doesn't actually
exist yet. And how much air you'd actually be improving at city
speeds hasn't been figured out.  And if you're going to ride
around with something like this, I think it needs an energy
monitor like that of a lo