Plants

I have been looking for ways to improve my home office’s air quality by increasing ventilation. Naturally, I wondered if I could add a few plants.

Humans make carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is bad for cognition. But plants turn carbon dioxide back into oxygen. And plants are the one true home decoration strategy. So maybe if you get a lot of plants, you can you can keep carbon dioxide in check and keep your brain working?

So you want to use plants to reduce indoor CO₂

I’m so glad someone did the math for me!

Realistically, we’re talking about something like 5,000-10,000 watts [of light], most of which is lost to the room as heat. Imagine five space heaters blasting you on high all the time.

(1 kg carbon dioxide)
× (0.273 kg elemental carbon / kg carbon dioxide)
× (2 kg dry plant / kg elemental carbon)
× (8.5 kg actual plant / kg dry plant)
= 4.6 kg actual plant.

Your garden must grow that much, every day. That’s 140 kg per month. You must prune and discard all that outside, or your garden is not actually sequestering anything