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There's Something Fishy About the Triton Oxygen Respirator
As an engineer/Diver since 73, I would LOVE one of these units....except they are like one of my other wants...perpetual motion machine. Some people have gone into all sorts of analysis showing how many liters of this or that. But there is no reason to do that. When you breathe underwater you take in ONE FULL lung full of water per breath. This device would have to produce that for every breath since it does not have any way to save any of your exhale. You breathe about once every 4 seconds. How much water passes over those motorcycle handles in 4 seconds....close enough for extraction mind you? Next, you have to overcome the affinity of the gases to water...as in negative pressure creation. Your lungs will have to work damn hard for that and you will use far more O2 than you "create". Anyone who dives can tell you a hard draw on regulator will exhaust you rapidly. While the combination of these issues dooms success FOREVER, EACH one does as well. Not hough water contact, not enough O2 concentration to make a difference, not enough gas mass to fill the lungs, ...... TOTAL FRAUD
respirators have great importance as you use them as a critical purpose of inhaling, so you must not compromise on its quality. WeeTect full face respirator visor (WFFRV) also names respirator face shield which is used in a full face respirator. It is an injection molding optical class 1 visor complaint with CE standard with anti fog coating and hard coating. http://bit.ly/20OKqqk
Total bunk.
First, make something giant and simple that works.
Second, make it smaller and more efficient. Raise price.
Third, make it smaller and more efficient. Raise price even more.
Finally, make it more expensive and better looking.
It's a funny concept however you will still need to get rid of all the carbondioxides you will build up if you re-use the same volume of air all the time.. and below certain depths the volume of air will be uncomfortably small for you to breath.
"As with any artificial gill using dissolved oxygen, air from a huge volume[quantify] of seawater would have to be extracted to provide enough for breathing, requiring large amounts of power for pumping. Therefore, a key issue remaining is battery life. Currently, a 1-kg battery would only last for one hour."
"30 times smaller than current battery that can quickly charge 1,000 times faster" == "magic."
Its projects like these that make me dislike design concepts. Its easy to design "innovative" products when you assume nonexistent scientific breakthroughs or violate the laws of physics.