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Bringing oxygen producing plants into your home

15 points by patagonia 8y ago

hprotagonist 8y ago
As much as i do appreciate having green things in my house, this site seems deeply suspicious. "Fractal Biology", indeed.
- okmokmz 8y ago
  It reminds me of the ads you'd find in the back of a tabloid
- gyrgtyn 8y ago
  "fractal" doesn't occur on this page
  - hprotagonist 8y ago
    http://www.secrets-of-longevity-in-humans.com/longevity-research.html http://www.secrets-of-longevity-in-humans.com/longevity-rese...
- patagonia 8y ago
  Agreed. I actually googled a few other sites with this type info before submitting, and this site had the fewest ads / most straight forward text based info. I’m sure if I spend another ten mins I could find a better site. If anyone else has some links that’d be awesome.
  - okmokmz 8y ago
    Something like this, perhaps https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3230460/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3230460/
    - patagonia 8y ago
      Nice ty
rcthompson 8y ago
This advice is akin to saying you can improve your car's fuel economy by turning off the air conditioning - technically true, but with an effect size so tiny as to make it pointless. On average, a human would need several trees to produce enough oxygen to sustain them indefinitely. That probably works out to hundreds of house plants.
- patagonia 8y ago
  I was looking at it more from a point of supplementing the oxygen already in the atmosphere and, importantly, scrubbing my apartment air of some of these other molecules. I don’t think that “you’ll never have a fully functioning biosphere so this is dumb” is a legit counter argument.
  - rcthompson 8y ago
    My argument wasn't that it's impossible to fully support a human with oxygen from houseplants. The point is that the oxygen output of a single houseplant, or even a dozen of them, is negligible relative to the oxygen consumption of even a single human. That doesn't mean that there aren't good reasons to own a houseplant, it just means that oxygen production isn't one of them.
basic1 8y ago
What is this trash?
AaronLasseigne 8y ago
There was a pretty interesting TED talk on this subject that includes how they used indoor plants to help clear up the air at an office building in India. https://www.ted.com/talks/kamal_meattle_on_how_to_grow_your_own_fresh_air https://www.ted.com/talks/kamal_meattle_on_how_to_grow_your_...

15 points by patagonia 8y ago

As much as i do appreciate having green things in my house, this site seems deeply suspicious. "Fractal Biology", indeed.

okmokmz 8y ago
It reminds me of the ads you'd find in the back of a tabloid
gyrgtyn 8y ago
"fractal" doesn't occur on this page
- hprotagonist 8y ago
  http://www.secrets-of-longevity-in-humans.com/longevity-research.html http://www.secrets-of-longevity-in-humans.com/longevity-rese...
patagonia 8y ago
Agreed. I actually googled a few other sites with this type info before submitting, and this site had the fewest ads / most straight forward text based info. I’m sure if I spend another ten mins I could find a better site. If anyone else has some links that’d be awesome.
- okmokmz 8y ago
  Something like this, perhaps https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3230460/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3230460/
  - patagonia 8y ago
    Nice ty

rcthompson 8y ago

This advice is akin to saying you can improve your car's fuel economy by turning off the air conditioning - technically true, but with an effect size so tiny as to make it pointless. On average, a human would need several trees to produce enough oxygen to sustain them indefinitely. That probably works out to hundreds of house plants.

patagonia 8y ago
I was looking at it more from a point of supplementing the oxygen already in the atmosphere and, importantly, scrubbing my apartment air of some of these other molecules. I don’t think that “you’ll never have a fully functioning biosphere so this is dumb” is a legit counter argument.
- rcthompson 8y ago
  My argument wasn't that it's impossible to fully support a human with oxygen from houseplants. The point is that the oxygen output of a single houseplant, or even a dozen of them, is negligible relative to the oxygen consumption of even a single human. That doesn't mean that there aren't good reasons to own a houseplant, it just means that oxygen production isn't one of them.

basic1 8y ago

What is this trash?

AaronLasseigne 8y ago

There was a pretty interesting TED talk on this subject that includes how they used indoor plants to help clear up the air at an office building in India. https://www.ted.com/talks/kamal_meattle_on_how_to_grow_your_own_fresh_air https://www.ted.com/talks/kamal_meattle_on_how_to_grow_your_...