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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 hou
by 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 agosource?
- vkou 4y agoDon'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 agoI’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 agoUnless 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 agoWhy ask something that's trivial to google yourself? There are numerous good ones, it's a well-known and noncontroversial topic.