Hi Kodah, Patrick from Neoplants here. Pothos are indeed super easy to maintain and very robust. But even then, not everyone has a green thumb and might overwater or underwater the plant. Which is why we designed our pot or “Shell” with a water reservoir. But more importantly, the Shell is designed to maximize the soil/air surface for maximum efficiency of the entire system.
Hey googlryas, Patrick from Neoplants here. Indeed, normal plants are too ineffective to remediate indoor air pollution. Which is why we are bioengineering them for this purpose! Unfortunately, according to government agencies like the EPA, there are no VOC purifying technologies that are effective and have no harmful by-products. If you want to deep dive, they published a technical report on these different technologies, their strenghts and drawbacks https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2018-07/documents/re...
We made a quick summary of keys insights of this report in the intro of our white paper https://bit.ly/3hjMqsB
Patrick here, CTO of Neoplants, thanks you so much for spending the time learning about what we’ve built. TLDR: we’ve put together a white paper explaining the technology behind what we do, as well as the performance data we’ve accumulated so far: https://bit.ly/3hjMqsB
As you pointed out, the range given by the Nasa study covers 2 orders of magnitude, this reflects the difficulty to extrapolate from their data to real life situations.
Even though our first product, Neo P1, is “only” 30x better than normal indoor plants, it’s already a great improvement over anything that’s been done in the scientific literature to date (usually improving phytoremediation by 2 or 3x) , and this is just the start of the adventure. As you said, we expect to continue to leverage our metabolism and microbiome engineering technologies to have even more performant plants every year.
