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Re:IKEA made a smart air quality sensor to track indoor poll... by Ajedi32 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @08:47AM (#34818513)
> If it is CO2 then you could invest in a houseplant or two.

This seemed wrong to me, so I checked and it seems like you'd need hundreds of houseplants to make any significant difference: https://www.realhomes.com/news/do-house-plants-remove-carbon...

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Re:IKEA made a smart air quality sensor to track indoor poll... by boppo1 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:50PM (#34822371)
Seems like there'd be a market for a CO2 > O2 exchanger of some sort. I don't know enough chemistry to recognize why this is probably too difficult for commercial viability.
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