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electric wire serves as tether for balloon that will get you out
of
your 5th or 78th floor in case of fire and 1st floor in case of
Tsunami. Works as follows:
On emergency you press the button. Small cup with salt,
pumps
water in, and electrolyzes it, quickly filling ballon with
hydrogen,
which is sent high above the building with a tether.
Then the 2nd balloon is filled and sent high up, independently
tethered. Etc. until enough balloons are filled that can carry
you away from the building slowly lowering you to the
ground.
When done the harness can be pulled back by people still in
the
building who pull the homing tether in, and reuse it.
Only an initial small amount of hydrogen and oxygen are
needed
for the first balloon to get way above the roof, and from then
on the electrolysis can continue by continuously pumping
water
and filling the other balloons. The tether is an electric wire so
getting the electricity to the electrolysis is not a problem.
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a1 the answer to all of those is so simple that I didn't even
think of spelling them out, especially because each can be
done in many ways. FOR EXAMPLE: |
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0. Regularly the system sits on your porch or next to a
window. 1. The mains with apparment building EPS. 2. An
(electric wire thickness) thin water pipe to your sink. 3.
The tiny (aquarium pump sized) pump is on the porch. 4.
The hydrogen electrode is in the balloon, while the oxygen
electrode is outside
the balloon. 5. Yes that is why the system is initiating itself
high up in
the sky. The initial amount to get it going can be either
with hot air (no need for storage) or helium.
6. Yes, that is easy to calculate: about 88 m3 of hydrogen
for a 100 kg person, and 1.3 m3 H is made from 1 liter of
water, which means to electrolyze about 68 liters of water.
You can easily calculate the time that takes for various
theoretical environments. |
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Since its an emergency I would use copper and aluminum to
make a very large surface (the electrodes would be ruined
quickly but its an emergency), and would aim at something
like 2 kW. (You don't want a power outage that you
induced). |
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