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Maybe put in some plants?

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• chongli 4y ago
  You'd have to put so many plants in your house that the interior would look like one of those rainforest exhibits at the natural history museum. A couple of houseplants on the windowsill won't even move the needle on CO2 levels in a house occupied by a family.
  • nunodonato 4y ago
    source?
    • vkou 4y ago
      Don't need a source, it's simple math. For a plant to absorb 1KG of CO2, it needs to increase in weight by at least ~1Kg. An average human exhales ~1KG of CO2 a day. Unless your house plants are gaining half a ton of mass a year, they aren't meaningfully offsetting your CO2 exhilation.
      • tonyarkles 4y ago
        I’m still with you and your point remains, but the plants do release O2 and just retain the C if I recall. Your plants only need to weigh 27% of that at the end of the year, or about 100kg :D
        • vkou 4y ago
          Unless your plants are made out of pure diamond, they also need to gain hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen in weight. But you are part-right, carbon is ~35-50% of a normal plant's weight.
    • SideburnsOfDoom 4y ago
      Why ask something that's trivial to google yourself? There are numerous good ones, it's a well-known and noncontroversial topic.
• malfist 4y ago
  Plants absorb near the same amount of O2 at night as they produce during the day. Maybe an algae farm is that you'd need.