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Ugh, the famous NASA study that everyone loves to quotes and nobody ever reads :) It’s freely available from the NASA website, and it looks like that Wikipedia
by Kon-Peki 4y ago
Ugh, the famous NASA study that everyone loves to quotes and nobody ever reads :)
It’s freely available from the NASA website, and it looks like that Wikipedia page includes a link in the footnotes.
At the very least, skim through it: they chose the plants to test based on what they could find at a random garden shop in Mississippi. They didn’t use pots filled with dirt - they built their own pots that had electrically powered fans and ducts. There’s a drawing in the report, you can make your own!
It’s definitely good to have houseplants; the more the better! But this report isn’t really of much value to the average homeowner.
- Nathanael_M 4y agoEspecially because the average homeowner can’t afford 10-1000 plants per square foot of flooring. If you have helpful data, please share. I was just skimming as you kindly pointed out and would love some concrete numbers other than holistic senses of the goodwill of houseplants, $150 houseplants or others. Actually, the only other study I’ve seen says that houseplants are of zero benefit in regards to VOC purification, but I doubt a startup would invest this much into fraud.
- sagebird 4y agoWouldn’t be surprised if houseplants often introduce problems - mold, that could at times be worse than no plant at all. The benefit of outside air is that it is averaged and that open spaces reach more stable equilibriums than artificial spaces.