Bringing oxygen producing plants into your home(secrets-of-longevity-in-humans.com)
secrets-of-longevity-in-humans.com
Bringing oxygen producing plants into your home
http://www.secrets-of-longevity-in-humans.com/oxygen-producing-plants.html
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As much as i do appreciate having green things in my house, this site seems deeply suspicious. "Fractal Biology", indeed.
Agreed. I actually googled a few other sites with this type info before submitting, and this site had the fewest ads / most straight forward text based info. I’m sure if I spend another ten mins I could find a better site. If anyone else has some links that’d be awesome.
Something like this, perhaps https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3230460/
Nice ty
It reminds me of the ads you'd find in the back of a tabloid
"fractal" doesn't occur on this page
There was a pretty interesting TED talk on this subject that includes how they used indoor plants to help clear up the air at an office building in India.
https://www.ted.com/talks/kamal_meattle_on_how_to_grow_your_...
https://www.ted.com/talks/kamal_meattle_on_how_to_grow_your_...
This advice is akin to saying you can improve your car's fuel economy by turning off the air conditioning - technically true, but with an effect size so tiny as to make it pointless. On average, a human would need several trees to produce enough oxygen to sustain them indefinitely. That probably works out to hundreds of house plants.
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.
My 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.