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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
by 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 agoMy 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.