I Bought a CO2 Monitor, and It Broke Me

Re:I Bought a CO2 Monitor, and It Broke Me by autoexec on Friday February 03, 2023 @07:20PM (#34649790)

I've considered this myself, but I have a feeling that if I did the math on it, it'd turn out that I'd need an impractical number of plants to keep the air quality at an ideal level

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Re:I Bought a CO2 Monitor, and It Broke Me by Rebelgecko on Friday February 03, 2023 @10:07PM (#34650998)

Depending on the size of your household you may need hundreds of plants

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Re:I Bought a CO2 Monitor, and It Broke Me by rogers18445 on Saturday February 04, 2023 @02:34AM (#34652479)

It doesn't depend on the size of the house, but rather the humans in it. You expel 300g of carbon per day. You need a lot of green to absorb that, and shovel excess kilos of green every few days.

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Re:I Bought a CO2 Monitor, and It Broke Me by antisceptic on Saturday February 04, 2023 @05:53AM (#34653470)

If you mean the size of the house, that's wrong. It depends on the number of inhabitants in the home and how often the home is ventilated. Considering plants grow in (lean) mass considerably faster than (adult) humans, the number of plants should be a much smaller number than "hundreds."

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Re:I Bought a CO2 Monitor, and It Broke Me by Rebelgecko on Saturday February 04, 2023 @03:29PM (#34657931)

Household refers to the number of occupants in the house, not its physical size.

A family of 4 can easily create over 1,000 pounds of CO2 per year. Common houseplants like Spathiphyllum can absorb about 0.8g of CO2 per day, so we can be super generous and call it 1 pound per year. So you'd need around 1,000 plants, reduced depending on ventilation and how much exhalation you do outside of home.

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