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Maybe I should start selling Läce Oxygen, the better breathing experience certified to be fresh as it was extracted directly from a sealed room filled with plants.

Don't breathe secondhand air from the mouths of peasants! Get Läce Oxygen!

EDIT: I was kidding, folks. ^^;

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You know that Oxygen bars are a thing, right?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_bar

A fact that continues to depress and disturb me. However, they don't use plants. They use machines. So I was trying not to directly reference something real.

You could totally make high class oxygen by using plants. It's a business. You just need to be brave / shameless enough to charge a ridiculous amount for plant generated oxygen.

I think this element of "I cannot bring myself to do this, even though some people are so rich they will not miss the money" stops some people from starting businesses.

Oh, you could. I'm sure you could.

Could it be profitable and have me sell it with a straight face?

No way in hell :P

Ha! Bundle that with a fan that "mists" the pure air and you've got yourself a product!

I know you were kidding, but that doesn't mean you couldn't make a lot of money with that idea.

Ridiculous products can make tons of money.

I think I'll try to stick with trying to come up with a SaaS product :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbDgpKaFbZY

Please breathe responsibly.

What kind of plants? I can see that idea working.

He'll use my line of high-end oxygen-producers. I can start him off with some Bambü, which produces a very nice texture, or we can skip directly to Alø, which has some very nice medicinal properties as well.

You need to tweak the phrasing to avoid regulatory scrutiny by FDA but beneficial properties of oxygen of different plants would sell.

I don't know how depressed I am by this.

I have a bamboo floor in my home office, and generally like things made out of bamboo. Not even knowing the actual oxygen-producing properties of bamboo, I can imagine myself trying some bamboo oxygen. And I usually don't like seemingly overpriced stunts like this. I seriously think it could sell big. Oxygen made by your favorite plants! Amazing idea.

Why not buy a bamboo plant and put it in the corner?

It is the same effect. :)

There are articles online about the useful effect of certain plants on the atmosphere of offices.

That's for regular punters. Now we need a bit of price discrimination to get the high value customers. No mere "place a bamboo plant in the corner". You need to specify the obscure region of China that the original plant comes from (leave out the fact that you took a million cutting from that plant in an industrial unit somewhere) and describe the quality of the oxygen and other harmonious gases produced by these plants.

http://www.mnn.com/health/healthy-spaces/photos/15-houseplan...

Feel free to steal it if you are serious. :)

I'm not brave enough to sell overpriced goods.

Consider the air pollution in some countries, such as China, your idea is brilliant.

Well [2] ... I don't think they're kidding.

Please note that oxygen, even if mildly purified from what's in the athmosphere is one of the most destructive substances there is. If you're standing in 72% or more oxygen, a cough will burn you to a crisp. Much of the age related damage in human bodies is ultimately the effect of too much oxygen in one place at the same time.

I know how it sounds, but please do keep in mind : oxygen is toxic, makes anything corrode, burn or explode (literally, you can coax half the noble gases into burning in sufficiently pure oxygen). Keep in mind the human body consists of water, carbon, oxygen and nitrogen. Everyone of those will react violently with oxygen, and while athmospheric concentrations are obviously safe, concentrated oxygen is NOT[1]. For the love of God, DO NOT aim a can of pure oxygen at a flame.

And yes, concentrated oxygen can keep you alive with a damaged lung system (e.g. done to newborn infants, post-operational care, etc). Please do not confuse that with the idea that it's good for you. Please remember that 2-3% of people that that is done to end up with severe burns on their body (due to something unexpectedly catching fire with pure oxygen aimed at it). This is with professionals handling it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1#Pure_oxygen_atmosphere [2] http://www.oxygenplus.com/

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