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tonyarkles on March 8, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Zero energy ready homes are coming

I’m still with you and your point remains, but the plants do release O2 and just retain the C if I recall. Your plants only need to weigh 27% of that at the end of the year, or about 100kg :D

vkou on March 8, 2023 [–]

Unless your plants are made out of pure diamond, they also need to gain hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen in weight.

But you are part-right, carbon is ~35-50% of a normal plant's weight.

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