How to Improve Your Indoor Air Quality with Plants

[Plantbrokersnet]

nice video

[halrhp]

This is nonsense! the NASA researchers who started all this have shown that the plants don't remove the chemicals (VOCs) but the soil (growing medium) did the removal. They even did some experiments where the used fans to move air at a higher rate through the soil. They concluded that the same removal would have occurred without the plants themselves. If you want more information, see three different articles on plants and indoor air quality at building ecology web site.

[livking]

@halrhp The leaves aren't so much what take up large quantities of VOCs. They will, but comparatively more slowly than the micro-organisms in the soil. Both the leaves and soil microbes will also take up nitrogen oxides. However this doesn't mean you can just plonk a pot of soil on your desk to filter the air: There's a symbiotic relationship with the plants and the microbes for the VOCs.

[danield2448]

dada, mine worked fine.

[2008dada]

download speed is way too slow, video keeps having to pause for buffer, and its not my system either