Spaceship Power Technology: Lithium Carbon Dioxide Battery Revolution for Space Applications

The Terran Space Academy brings you the latest revolutionary technology with rechargeable lithium carbon dioxide batteries. Current battery technology is well known but this new technology will provide higher energy density, improved life support technology and a way to power fuel production and space suit power systems on Mars.
A new technology is being developed that could be a game changer for space exploration and colonization. This technology is based on a new battery system that uses carbon dioxide to charge a battery. Let’s look at this technology and how it could be used. Life Support Systems are of critical importance when it comes to surviving in space. One of the major threats to survival is the fact that, while humans need oxygen to stay alive, too much carbon dioxide, even with plenty of oxygen, is fatal. The amount of carbon dioxide in the air on Earth has been rising steadily as our Level 0.01 civilization continues to burn fossil fuels at a high rate. The current level of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere is about 412 parts per million. In the year 2000 it was 370ppm. That is an increase of 11% in two decades. While this contributes directly to global warming it is nowhere near the level that would be fatal to breath. A level of 100,000ppm or about 10% causes immediate unconsciousness and in a few minutes death will occur. At lower levels but about the normal level it can cause intoxication. A drunken like effect on the human brain. With exposure to high levels of carbon dioxide the respiratory rate increase, as our bodies actually breath as our carbon dioxide levels go up, not as our oxygen goes down. That is one reason why the current Covid-19 pandemic is so deadly. CO2 levels remain normal in this infection while oxygen levels drop. That infected person does not feel short of breath and often just feels weak. Some have gone to the emergency room with oxygen levels of only 85% which can rapidly lead to death. 94 to 99% is normal. If the carbon dioxide level gets up to 5% or 50,000 parts per million someone will develop hypercapnia, rapid breathing, and a condition called respiratory acidosis. CO2 is handled in the blood by converting it to bicarbonate or HCO3 so it is water soluble. This causes the bodies pH to drop and can interfere with normal protein and enzyme function. Intoxication will quickly develop. At a level of 10% or 100,000 ppm rapidly causes convulsions, coma and death as described earlier. Concentrations of 30% or more are almost instantly fatal. In spacecraft and on colonies on the Moon and Mars there will not initially be large greenhouses producing enough oxygen to survive. Gas permable water cylinders with oxygen producing algae have been considered and will help but primary systems for everything but massive spacecraft and back up systems for large colonies, will be necessary for the foreseeable future. On the Apollo missions the ships carried oxygen cannisters to keep the oxygen level up, purging excess to relieve pressure, and then had carbon dioxide absorbing chemicals to use in cannisters to keep the CO2 levels down to a safe level. Everyone who saw Apollo 13 knows that the CO2 cannisters on the LEM we round while the ones on the Command Module where square. These cannisters contain a chemical called Lithium Hydoxide. This chemical absorbs carbon dioxide out of the air. Once saturated the cannister is discarded. Running out of cannisters before completion of the mission would be bad. In Apollo 13 they had all three astronauts staying in the Command Module with no trip to the Moon for two of them. This started saturating the CO2 cannisters faster than planned and required the crew to take the cannisters from the Lunar Excursion Module and modify them to work with the Command Module Systems. The oxygen for Apollo was supplied by onboard cryogenic tanks of liquid oxygen. The International Space Station has an Oxygen Generation Assembly that uses water electrolysis to separate hydrogen and oxygen and can produce 2.3 to 9kg of oxygen a day usually running at 5.4kg per day. The average human requires 1kg of oxygen per day at a normal activity level.
Further Study
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190926101331.ht
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/first-rechargeable-carbon-dioxide-battery/
http://gravitybattery.info/
https://www.ossila.com/pages/molybdenum-disulfide-mos2
https://airandspace.si.edu/multimedia-gallery/5433hjpg
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/pdf/100401main_eclss.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5380556/
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/sabatier.htm
https://celss.net/tiki-index.php?page=Sabatier+Reactor
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5380556/

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