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Eric_WVGGyesterday at 10:24 PM3 repliesview on HN

plants plants plants. Most of these are dummy easy to care for, too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Clean_Air_Study#List_of_p...


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jdsnapeyesterday at 10:27 PM

Plants are nice…but, from your link:

“These results are not applicable to typical buildings, where outdoor-to-indoor air exchange already removes volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at a rate that could only be matched by the placement of 10–1000 plants/m2 of a building's floor space.[2]

The results also failed to replicate in future studies”

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showmypostyesterday at 10:51 PM

You’d need a forest in your room to see a proper change. There was a whole discussion in the Indie hacking scene on X on that topic around 1-2 weeks ago

Big fan of plants though, help me feel calm

globular-toasttoday at 6:25 AM

Plants release CO2 at night, though. Not much, but they certainly won't help to remove it unless they are photosynthesising.