Ideal Gas Law - example
a person’s average metabolic rate is around 100 Watts = 100 Joules/sec.
One molecule of O2 is burned into CO2 to give about 4 eV of energy = 6.4 x 10-19 Joules.
Air contains about 4/5 N2 and 1/5 O2 .
We’ll consider a house 1500 sq. ft x 8 ft = 12,000 ft3 = 340 m3 .