A guy did a test and he had 2 barrels with dence algae with grow lights in a small inclosed room. But the algae still needed 3000ppm of CO2 to be net positive in oxygen production. The product is more for looks and a talk starter than an air purifier.
Thank you for the video. You are adorable and I LOVED the honesty. I was almost ready to buy this thing but something was stopping me - your video sealed the deal. I have Airthings to monitor all of my levels and get those high numbers frequently and opening a patio door or window makes them drop quickly. Pretty amazing, but I do wish there were something similar to an air purifier that would work the same way. I just purchased a radon mitigation system for my home and it has been amazing - the radon level, which would go as high as 10, now is always under 1. So THAT works.
I checked out the price and almost fainted. USD 199 !!! Are you kidding me ? I find it hard to get rid of the stupid algae that grows in my aquarium and here is a company selling the damn thing! Ok I am going to DIY some algae "Algen Air" clone and see how it goes. Definitely will be a fraction of the USD 199 !!!!
Everyday millions die of asphyxia. O2 Sat monitors show that before long we all expire. Open windows and plants just can’t cope with this crisis which can be conveniently solved through a purchase!!!
This is dope I was looking for this exact solution to the CO2 in my place. Above 500 ppm is too high for anyone wondering. Thank you for making this vid man
mine is constantly around 1000~1300ppm when 1~2 people in. (outdoor baseline is around 600~700ppm in Taiwan, base on my detector) Thinking about building one too!!
@@coppulor6500 Where do you find this information? mine is always above 1000 sometimes 1500 if i don't open window. (i live in the north east so it's hard to open them without freezing my place out and the co2 rises fast once you close the windows) but it would explain why i feel like i'm dying everyday if i go by your facts lol
@@lynnie9715 I should have been more clear/specific. Co2 is routinely in the 700's indoor and even higher but usually below 1000. Under 2000 is definitely not a good guide. I would say under 850 is a good goal. 2 things which could be causing your fatigue: gas appliances which are not vented properly. That includes even use of gas for cooking. 2nd is mold. Mold respirates so like humans it releases co2. We removed a bunch of framing and drywall that was contaminated with mold and making us very sick. Our CO2 numbers would often reach 900 or even a thousand. Now I would say the average is in the 600s (I just checked and right now it's 587 but no one is downstairs yet where our detector is located).
He is not a scientist, but you can see his efforts. Needs to start at the basics of the scientific method, but you can’t say that to people without sounding like an asshole.
Okay so. Ive been looking for a tear down of one of these. But cant find one. Heres what i figured out Its a fish tank. If you want to do this yourself do the following: Get yourself a fish tank on discount craigslist ect. You can make it as pretty as you want. The important thing is, at leasy 1 gallon. Get yourself a air pump, bigger the better, so for a 1 gallon tank, a 5 gallon air pump is enough. Set it up however you want. If you want only algae, then get a handful of fine bubble airnstones, use splitters to apace them apart. Put it near a window or put a cheap grow light ln it. another option is any aquarium light used to grow plants such as hygger. Grow algae as heavily as possible. There ya go.
Lol i have a co2 tester too and i'm always paranoid about it. I sometimes have to open my windows for 15 min and air it out, but it SLOWLY drops and in the winter i freeze myself out :( i guess i have to constantly be poisoned by co2
See any improvement here Shervin? In particular I’m curious if by comparing device-in-room vs device-out-of-room on different nights you can calculate exactly at what rate it removes co2 from the air.
@@ShervinShares Thanks! Check out the paper “Effectiveness of Indoor Plant to Reduce CO2 in Indoor Environment” (on Google) for a baseline on how much CO2 is removed by plants. The best plant they measured (Prayer Plant) removed 154ppm of CO2 over 8hrs at 700lux of lighting in a room initially at 1000ppm. Which is extremely minimal - I think you’d need like 20 of them to be able to keep up with a human in the room.
@@djahandarie wow this is super insightful! I think this was taughted to replace "20-ish" plants. but i didn't take into account the amount of light in the room
@@ShervinShares Yeah, the rabbit hole goes deep on this topic depending on how nerdy you want to get lul. Light is huge! Most plants respirate at night (i.e., *release* CO2) so that’s definitely not what you want in your bedroom. I understand this product has a light in it but I’m not sure how strong it is.
@@djahandarie Darius, seems like a scrubber using an absorbent/adsorbent is the way to go. I am extremely interested in a whole-home solution. Seems like you know more than average about this (that's a low bar isn't it? lol). any suggestions?
I was thinking of using multiple good sized glass fish tanks and growing algae myself, and then putting the tanks in every room of the house to absorb the CO2. What do you think of that idea?
I'm thinking a similar way, I think if youre using a good sized air pump the air circulates through the water and clings to the algae , you just want a good amount of air circulation through the water I believe. I'm just learning too though
Medical applications and diving rebreathers use soda lime to rapidly chemically absorb CO2. Maybe give that a try. You can buy the spherical medium in bulk and strap it in front of a box fan with some kind of fine mesh container.
Great Review, I was thinking about buying/making one. I think you kind of observed this at the end but I think the reason it isn't performing at night is because the algae needs light to perform photosynthesis (Unfortunately I don't think the LED's are enough) which takes the CO2+Water and creates Glucose+Oxygen. At night the algae will actually go though a respiration process and take the Glucose+Oxygen stores and produce CO2. This doesn't account for much though and the algae will produce more Oxygen in the day than CO2 at night.
Thanks for this, I was going to buy ne of those, but it really doesn't seem worth it. In the end the window opening cant be beat, just dont want to open my kids window since his room faces the street..
tl;dr plants are super efficient and you'd probably only get ~1 ppm CO2 reduction per houseplant in a 500 sq ft apartment Been interested in this for a while; I also use an Awair Element to monitor my apartment's air quality but the outdoor humidity/temperature where I live isn't always great enough to leave my window open all day. My background is in chemistry, but after reading some papers, it seems like the best case scenario using houseplants is ~150 ppm reduction in CO2 in a 1 cubic meter space. If you have a 500 square foot studio apartment with an average ceiling height of 8 feet, that's about 113 cubic meters. Extrapolating from the current research, you'd only see a 1-2 ppm drop in CO2 per plant under ideal conditions using the ideal plant(s) for an apartment that size. I'd assume under these conditions the amount of carbon dioxide scrubbed would be proportional to the mass of the plant. Unfortunately, nature likes efficiency and plants just don't require that much carbon dioxide to photosynthesize.
A guy did a test and he had 2 barrels with dence algae with grow lights in a small inclosed room. But the algae still needed 3000ppm of CO2 to be net positive in oxygen production.
The product is more for looks and a talk starter than an air purifier.
Thank you for the video. You are adorable and I LOVED the honesty. I was almost ready to buy this thing but something was stopping me - your video sealed the deal. I have Airthings to monitor all of my levels and get those high numbers frequently and opening a patio door or window makes them drop quickly. Pretty amazing, but I do wish there were something similar to an air purifier that would work the same way. I just purchased a radon mitigation system for my home and it has been amazing - the radon level, which would go as high as 10, now is always under 1. So THAT works.
I checked out the price and almost fainted. USD 199 !!! Are you kidding me ? I find it hard to get rid of the stupid algae that grows in my aquarium and here is a company selling the damn thing! Ok I am going to DIY some algae "Algen Air" clone and see how it goes. Definitely will be a fraction of the USD 199 !!!!
How make algae air clone
yea it's pricey
2021 we still cant produce oxygen at home at the adequate amounts. Smh.
Lolol
Everyday millions die of asphyxia. O2 Sat monitors show that before long we all expire. Open windows and plants just can’t cope with this crisis which can be conveniently solved through a purchase!!!
This is dope I was looking for this exact solution to the CO2 in my place. Above 500 ppm is too high for anyone wondering. Thank you for making this vid man
why is above 500ppm too high? I heard anything below 2,000 ppm is fine
@@ShervinShares no way. outdoor air is in the 400 range. anything significantly above that will cause serious fatigue etc.
mine is constantly around 1000~1300ppm when 1~2 people in. (outdoor baseline is around 600~700ppm in Taiwan, base on my detector) Thinking about building one too!!
@@coppulor6500 Where do you find this information? mine is always above 1000 sometimes 1500 if i don't open window. (i live in the north east so it's hard to open them without freezing my place out and the co2 rises fast once you close the windows) but it would explain why i feel like i'm dying everyday if i go by your facts lol
@@lynnie9715 I should have been more clear/specific. Co2 is routinely in the 700's indoor and even higher but usually below 1000. Under 2000 is definitely not a good guide. I would say under 850 is a good goal. 2 things which could be causing your fatigue: gas appliances which are not vented properly. That includes even use of gas for cooking. 2nd is mold. Mold respirates so like humans it releases co2. We removed a bunch of framing and drywall that was contaminated with mold and making us very sick. Our CO2 numbers would often reach 900 or even a thousand. Now I would say the average is in the 600s (I just checked and right now it's 587 but no one is downstairs yet where our detector is located).
Bruh, with your AC on you aren't going to get an accurate reading. There is no control
He is not a scientist, but you can see his efforts. Needs to start at the basics of the scientific method, but you can’t say that to people without sounding like an asshole.
He was SO close.
This is “science”!!
Okay so. Ive been looking for a tear down of one of these. But cant find one. Heres what i figured out
Its a fish tank.
If you want to do this yourself do the following:
Get yourself a fish tank on discount craigslist ect. You can make it as pretty as you want. The important thing is, at leasy 1 gallon.
Get yourself a air pump, bigger the better, so for a 1 gallon tank, a 5 gallon air pump is enough.
Set it up however you want. If you want only algae, then get a handful of fine bubble airnstones, use splitters to apace them apart.
Put it near a window or put a cheap grow light ln it. another option is any aquarium light used to grow plants such as hygger.
Grow algae as heavily as possible.
There ya go.
Almost bought this!! Thanks for the video! Trying to get my Co2 down as well as TVOCs.
Lol i have a co2 tester too and i'm always paranoid about it. I sometimes have to open my windows for 15 min and air it out, but it SLOWLY drops and in the winter i freeze myself out :( i guess i have to constantly be poisoned by co2
Why buy nutrients for algae when you can just pee in the tank 😂
LOL what
See any improvement here Shervin? In particular I’m curious if by comparing device-in-room vs device-out-of-room on different nights you can calculate exactly at what rate it removes co2 from the air.
I did a test and no drastic differences! Review video coming soon!
@@ShervinShares Thanks! Check out the paper “Effectiveness of Indoor Plant to Reduce CO2 in Indoor Environment” (on Google) for a baseline on how much CO2 is removed by plants. The best plant they measured (Prayer Plant) removed 154ppm of CO2 over 8hrs at 700lux of lighting in a room initially at 1000ppm. Which is extremely minimal - I think you’d need like 20 of them to be able to keep up with a human in the room.
@@djahandarie wow this is super insightful! I think this was taughted to replace "20-ish" plants. but i didn't take into account the amount of light in the room
@@ShervinShares Yeah, the rabbit hole goes deep on this topic depending on how nerdy you want to get lul. Light is huge! Most plants respirate at night (i.e., *release* CO2) so that’s definitely not what you want in your bedroom. I understand this product has a light in it but I’m not sure how strong it is.
@@djahandarie Darius, seems like a scrubber using an absorbent/adsorbent is the way to go. I am extremely interested in a whole-home solution. Seems like you know more than average about this (that's a low bar isn't it? lol). any suggestions?
I was thinking of using multiple good sized glass fish tanks and growing algae myself, and then putting the tanks in every room of the house to absorb the CO2. What do you think of that idea?
I'm thinking a similar way, I think if youre using a good sized air pump the air circulates through the water and clings to the algae , you just want a good amount of air circulation through the water I believe. I'm just learning too though
Wow! It's got a cool scifi like sales pitch but apparently doesn't deliver.
hahah
How often do you have to replace the algae
I think every 2-6 weeks? It really depends on how fast you burn through your algae based on your enviroment
You should have linked that aware air monitor, I would have clicked it
here you go! amzn.to/3dL0byQ
Medical applications and diving rebreathers use soda lime to rapidly chemically absorb CO2. Maybe give that a try. You can buy the spherical medium in bulk and strap it in front of a box fan with some kind of fine mesh container.
You mentioned A/C on, is it a room only A/C? Whole house? If it is whole house, I would say your hopes were too high with such a small algae tank.
mightve been whole house
Great Review, I was thinking about buying/making one.
I think you kind of observed this at the end but I think the reason it isn't performing at night is because the algae needs light to perform photosynthesis (Unfortunately I don't think the LED's are enough) which takes the CO2+Water and creates Glucose+Oxygen.
At night the algae will actually go though a respiration process and take the Glucose+Oxygen stores and produce CO2. This doesn't account for much though and the algae will produce more Oxygen in the day than CO2 at night.
good to know, thank you!
Did you buy or make one? Was it worth it?
Is the nutrients somebody's dirty fish tank water? lmfao
LOLO #recycle
Thanks for this, I was going to buy ne of those, but it really doesn't seem worth it. In the end the window opening cant be beat, just dont want to open my kids window since his room faces the street..
He can use more algae it will make more oxygen
Yuppp probably
So it's really just a $300 lamp
of course there's more co2 at night. your snake plant is taking in oxygen in the dark. once the light is back on it's photosynthesizing
yes and the AlgenAir should be powered the light in the unit to convert to O2!
love this video -- would be curious to see how this product impacts Vo2 max levels! Or maybe even sleep data! :)
yes if it worked!
tl;dr plants are super efficient and you'd probably only get ~1 ppm CO2 reduction per houseplant in a 500 sq ft apartment
Been interested in this for a while; I also use an Awair Element to monitor my apartment's air quality but the outdoor humidity/temperature where I live isn't always great enough to leave my window open all day. My background is in chemistry, but after reading some papers, it seems like the best case scenario using houseplants is ~150 ppm reduction in CO2 in a 1 cubic meter space. If you have a 500 square foot studio apartment with an average ceiling height of 8 feet, that's about 113 cubic meters. Extrapolating from the current research, you'd only see a 1-2 ppm drop in CO2 per plant under ideal conditions using the ideal plant(s) for an apartment that size. I'd assume under these conditions the amount of carbon dioxide scrubbed would be proportional to the mass of the plant. Unfortunately, nature likes efficiency and plants just don't require that much carbon dioxide to photosynthesize.
Wow that’s SUPER INTERESTING. So it’s almost impossible to change indoor air quality with house plants
SHERVIN IS A MAD SCIENTIST!!
hehehe