OK, I got really bored and actually calculated out the amount of O2 this will eat in operation at full load.
The website says it will eat 200 cu ft of H2(@ 1/2 load) in 11.5 hours. Since it's a fuel cell, it will eat half that amount of oxygen (2 hydrogens to every oxygen in water). Then we multiply by 28000 cc per cubic foot, and divide by 60 to get it in ccs per minute. Then we compare that to how much a human being consumes (according to http://www.mindpub.com/art197.htm). I assume a 70 kilo person breathes 1400 ccs of O2 per minute.
This device will breathe ~4057 ccs of O2 per minute, or almost 3 80 kilo(175 pound) people worth. Not too insane, but perhaps a bit much in a small cramped room with poor ventilation.
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In response to your questions...
1. How will they focus the beam on receptor antenas?
I'm not gonna pretend I can explain it, but I am gonna pretend I can use google. This is an artice on spacefuture.com written by a boeing engineer. 2. How will they keep airplanes from flying across the beams?
Getting air traffic to steer clear should be a monumentally easy task. Do you realize the amount of "restricted airspace" that already exists? It is simply a matter of designating the land, and getting the air traffic controllers to say "hey, don't go there."
3nd, I have to believe that the fact that there are hundreds of communications sattelites in geosynchronous orbits that don't collide, it wouldn't be excessivly difficult to add one more to the list. Admittedly it would be inconvenient due to the fact that nothing could fly underneath it, but again inconvenient does not mean impossible.
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OK, I got really bored and actually calculated out the amount of O2 this will eat in operation at full load.
The website says it will eat 200 cu ft of H2(@ 1/2 load) in 11.5 hours. Since it's a fuel cell, it will eat half that amount of oxygen (2 hydrogens to every oxygen in water). Then we multiply by 28000 cc per cubic foot, and divide by 60 to get it in ccs per minute. Then we compare that to how much a human being consumes (according to http://www.mindpub.com/art197.htm). I assume a 70 kilo person breathes 1400 ccs of O2 per minute.
This device will breathe ~4057 ccs of O2 per minute, or almost 3 80 kilo(175 pound) people worth. Not too insane, but perhaps a bit much in a small cramped room with poor ventilation.
In response to your questions...
1. How will they focus the beam on receptor antenas?
I'm not gonna pretend I can explain it, but I am gonna pretend I can use google. This is an artice on spacefuture.com written by a boeing engineer.
2. How will they keep airplanes from flying across the beams?
Getting air traffic to steer clear should be a monumentally easy task. Do you realize the amount of "restricted airspace" that already exists? It is simply a matter of designating the land, and getting the air traffic controllers to say "hey, don't go there."
3nd, I have to believe that the fact that there are hundreds of communications sattelites in geosynchronous orbits that don't collide, it wouldn't be excessivly difficult to add one more to the list. Admittedly it would be inconvenient due to the fact that nothing could fly underneath it, but again inconvenient does not mean impossible.