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Imagine paying to have extra oxygen inserted into homes, schools, and offices. To offset CO2 levels. Or perhaps we will use CO2 scrubbers. This will further inc
by npo9 7y ago
Imagine paying to have extra oxygen inserted into homes, schools, and offices. To offset CO2 levels. Or perhaps we will use CO2 scrubbers. This will further increase the division between the haves and have-nots because it puts a higher price tag on cognitive abilities.
- thrower123 7y agoOr we could just stick a few house plants in each room...
- learc83 7y agoA few house plants have no meaningful impact on CO2 levels in an occupies room.
- npo9 7y agoHas anyone measured how big of an impact plants have on C02 levels in a room? I’d imagine it wouldn’t do much, but perhaps large amounts of other biomass might help.
- veemjeem 7y agoSupposedly a single human produce around 300g of carbon per day in the form of carbon dioxide. A tree's dry weight is about 50% carbon, but when the tree is alive, it's probably still 80% water. So I'm approximately guessing that a tree needs to grow 3kg per day to offset a single human's CO2 production. I don't think there are many plants that grow at a rate of 3kg per day -- you'd probably need 500 indoor plants making 6g of mass per day. I've grown some hydroponic basil that makes almost 50g of material per day, so maybe it's possible to have 60 indoor basil plants to offset your carbon production. When I chopped the basil plant, it was as tall as I was.
- npo9 7y agoIt’s also easy to imagine some combination of biotech and genetic engineering can make a biomass capable of being 5x-10x as capable of capturing carbon as your hydroponic basil. Most likely basil isn’t the most efficient “natural” biomass generating plant either.
- steanne 7y agohttps://www.gardenmyths.com/houseplants-increase-oxygen-levels/ https://www.gardenmyths.com/houseplants-increase-oxygen-leve...
- ars 7y agoEven in this scenario, you don't need a scrubber, just a fan or open a window.
- npo9 7y agoThis won’t work if your goal is to lower CO2 levels to below outside levels.
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- sp332 7y agoThe problem isn't low oxygen, it's high CO2.
- dan-robertson 7y agoI think the idea would be to introduce oxygen (and nitrogen I guess) to displace the CO2
- antisthenes 7y agoThe biggest hurdle to having better cognitive abilities is living within a culture of ignorance where critical thinking isn't thought of as a necessary and desired skill. In other words, a 100ppm lower CO2 level might make you grasp concepts 3-5% quicker, but it most certainly won't make you pick up that book in the first place if you didn't want to.
- WhompingWindows 7y agoWe already have a cheap, plentiful, 100% natural, and green way to do this: plants. Having a dozen plants in every room would go a long way towards fixing the O2/CO2 balance, though the biochemistry and physics may not work out to get us back to square one.