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Bringing oxygen producing plants into your home

15 points| patagonia | 7 years ago |secrets-of-longevity-in-humans.com | reply

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[+] hprotagonist|7 years ago|reply
As much as i do appreciate having green things in my house, this site seems deeply suspicious. "Fractal Biology", indeed.
[+] patagonia|7 years ago|reply
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.
[+] okmokmz|7 years ago|reply
It reminds me of the ads you'd find in the back of a tabloid
[+] gyrgtyn|7 years ago|reply
"fractal" doesn't occur on this page
[+] rcthompson|7 years ago|reply
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.
[+] patagonia|7 years ago|reply
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.