Call me stupid but I was told that while yes, Trees does absorb CO2 form the air and give Oxygen back during daytime. There’s also a reason to not have tree in your enclosed bedroom during night as it release all the CO2 absorbed.
So my question was that people are saying to plant tree to help purify the air in streets, city, or any dense population location. If the statement in first paragraph’s correct. wouldn’t that just result in that the trees would give the o2 and purify the air during day time and just flood the street with co2 during night? I’m confused…
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Trees are living and so respire to use energy. Instead of eating they have photosynthesis.
Photosynthesis brings in CO2 basically (cutting corner here) is their food. Their poo is O2.
Respiration is the same as ours and other animals. O2 in helps break down sugar for energy.
The part that has been missed is these two things are not equal in amount. Plants don’t do anything but grow. No movement for water just growth for water. No movement for food it’s in the air (corners cut here). No movement for anything (corners cut for at least one species I know of but still). So their energy requirement is fuck all so they respire very little but “eat” a shit ton.
You could think of it like this. Trees a fat fucks. They “eat” all day and do nothing. “That’s” why trees are so heavy (corner cutting again but it’s a good enough analogy).
On the apparent subject of enclosed spaces with plants/trees. The ISS has many in it to help air filtration. There is an article I forget where about their research into the best plants to filter out stuff. I was bought the top plant as a gift when my house burned down as a joke (you know filter out the smoke). It’s a live an kicking in the corner happily. We call “him” Tiddles.
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