Revolutionary Scuba Mask Creates Breathable Oxygen Underwater On Its Own
There is a detailed analysis of the feasibility of such systems in general on the following web page:
http://www.nigelhewitt.co.uk/diving/rant/#gills
Quote (following an explanation of the quantity of oxygen in solution in sea water at depth, vs. quantities required to breath, yielding a requirement of 2000L/minute of water to be processed):
"This raises three problems in my mind.
"Firstly is size. If the magic box is a reasonable size, say a volume of working water is the size of my scuba tank it will have 12L of water to work on at any one moment. So 2000L/minute means that the water must be in, processed and out in 12*60/2000 seconds. That's just over one third of a second to complete the whole process.
"Secondly there is the fact that 2000L/minute worries me when I consider that my old 20HP outboard had an 20cm diameter prop on it. To move 2000L/minute it would have to knock the water through at 2000/31.4=63m/s, otherwise 142mph in old numbers. So my second problem is that this is a huge amount of thrust for a diver who does not wish to zoom about like a torpedo and the third problem is that that sort of power isn't going to come from ordinary batteries."
Personally, I read the article as a typical design student 'concept' piece; certainly, if I were a battery manufacturer that had a product 30x more energy dense than the competition, which charged 1000x faster, I would not be looking at the scuba market to make my billions.
Yet another Yanko Design "concept" mistaken for a real project in the media. I wouldn't mind it once in a while, except that this studio seems to make a habit out of being subtly misleading in order to garner free press, and it has been going on for years.
I hate to be so negative, but this actually works...if you ever see a project that makes you say "Gee, it looks like an industrial designer's concept might have gotten mistaken for a real product here", you should then ask yourself, "Is Yanko Design somehow associated with this piece?" 9 out of 10 times the answer will be yes.
Looks to be a art/design project?
http://www.behance.net/gallery/TRTON/13434535
"The micro battery is a next-generation technology with a size 30 times smaller than current battery that can quickly charge 1,000 times faster." - seems BS
Anyone else remember this device from Star Wars - The Phantom Menace when Obi Wan Kenobi and Qui Gon Jinn swim down to Jar Jar's people? lol.
If this were real and it isn't - it sounds like a rebreather (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebreather) only several orders of magnitude smaller and without the extra tank full of pure O2.
Fun to think about though.
Is it a real thing or just an idea? What's all this about a microcompressor and microbattery? Even the source links are very short on details of something so 'revoultionary'.
Revolutionary Scuba Mask Creates Breathable Oxygen Underwater On Its own
Wasn’t this an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man? As I recall, it was a fake product even there.