Reusable CO2 absorbant made from alcohol, sugar and salt.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3806239]

http://www.sciencedebate.com/science-blog/renewable-carbon-dioxide-sponge-promising-material-carbon-
fixation

This is a cheap, drop-in replacement for sodalime powder, which used to have to be thrown out after it was fully saturated with CO2. That comprised another one of the big expenses of living undersea.

With this, you only need two canisters of absorbant; One is in use while the other is being purged of CO2. Like swappable batteries.

Pic related; The occupants of Deep Cabin used 180 pounds of sodalime powder *per day*. Aquarius keeps a huge trunk of sodalime powder that needs to be replaced after each ten day mission. That is now a thing of the past.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3806272]

We have the absorbant, now all we need is the means to do turn it back into Oxygen.

Call Inurdaes and have him give us one of those plasma arc waste disposal thingees he seems to love so much, so we can dissociate CO2 into Carbon and Oxygen. It's the perfect plan! We can store the Carbon and use Oxygen as breathing gas! Yay!

I'd also like to state that my name is most decidedly not Philip Optional Mercier, the guy saw me posting a picture of David Sarif, image googled it and came upon the Facebook profile of some poor chap. I should inform him of this, now that I think about it. Tell him to protect his information online so he doesn't get pizzabombed.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3806282]

>>3806272

>Tell him to protect his information online so he doesn't get pizzabombed.

A most delicious fate.

[resident /sci/ economist !!0CqB7P/574e No.3806297]

>>3806272

Perhaps you could use the carbon to make something.

Also I thought "Optional" was a very cool/unusual middle name.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3806306]

>>3806297

>I don't ask for votes. That's why I was made moderator.

HYDROCARBON ASSEMBLERS

But we're nowhere near the technology, so, maybe you can clump together some atoms into lumps of amorphous Carbon and use it in an ordinary 3D printer.

>Also I thought "Optional" was a very cool/unusual middle name.

Also not third world.

[Anonymous No.3806318]

>>3806272
>plasma arc waste disposal thingees he seems to love so much, so we can dissociate CO2 into Carbon and Oxygen.
And you'll get ozone too. Enjoy getting burned lungs.

[Anonymous No.3806328]

>>3806318
Freon, problem solved.

[Colonel Coffee Mug !phJ7yIcs.Q No.3806331]

>>3806318

>implying we can't sort the ozone out
>or regulate the voltage

Though the second point is doubtful.

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3806853]

At any rate, this will drastically reduce the cost of operating a submersible or 1atm/hybrid habitat over long periods. Sodalime is nontoxic and biodegradable, so it did the ocean no harm to disperse it after use, but it was a recurring expense that added significantly to the overhead costs and now it has been eliminated. One more step towards the blue frontier. :3

[Mad Scientist !!Q11PG81nz2n No.3806985]

Also: Pair this system with a likeafish sea water oxygen extractor, and you're done. You have a system that provides a breathable atmosphere, indefinitely, using just electricity. A research base on the ocean floor with a nuclear reactor could be completely isolated with no surface support, yet sustain life for decades. MY MIND.

[Anonymous No.3807002]

I breathe hydrogen sulfide.

Quitting oxygen was a bitch, but I did it, and I'm never going back to that poison.