Removing All The Air.

Hi Hendrik,

"What will happen as the air supply is depleting?" It will get REALLY hard to breathe!

"What will be the minimum pressure?" If the rig is good enough, a vacuum (after outgassing from all the rocks, dead vegatation etc

"Any useful information you can contemplate."

Please don't try this while I am still alive !

"Alternative question for the faint hearted. If A is in love with B - What is the name of C?"

Free !!!!!

Sorry, slow day at work!

IPG

Would we freeze to death or pass out first?

This sounds like a job for Dr. Evil. Pay the ransom or I will pull a vacuum on your silly planet!

In theory, perhaps it could work. Practically, it would probably require resources in excess of those available worldwide.

Global nuclear war is probably your best bet if you want to destroy the earth.

What will happen as the air supply is depleting?

We would grow gills

What will be the minimum pressure?

Depends on how deep you want to swim.

And any useful information you can contemplate.

Sell your house now may not be worth much after you cover it with all that liquid.

What a marketing idea! Finally, we can pay for air. No air pollution, no water to drink (it would evaporate and be collected and stored as a gas). Soils would collapse, daily temperatures would run from about 250 C daytime to -150 night, we could explore the antarctic continent at grade, we could explore the ocean bottom on a leisurely walk, and though our thermopane windows would blow up, or at least lose their seal, the insulation in our houses would increase in thermal value, except blown cellulose, which would collapse. The air car might even become modestly efficient. No frost on your windshield, no hurricanes, tornados, not typhoons.

What air was left would continually heat up from the thermal energy released to liquify/solidify your storage, nuclear power plants would nave to convert to liguid sodium cooling, with radiant cooling, and closed loop turbines. Power lines would overheat, no more rust, sulfuric acid would be nearly the last gas phase supported, but without water, it wouldn't be very corrosive. UV C would wipe out every living thing left, even if dormant. You could use airports for your storage areas. You would need about 400 gallons of storage for each square foot of the earth, plus the water volume of the entire world. So if you used 1/2 of the earth for your storage, your tanks, just for the atmosphere, would have to be about 100 foot deep. Plus the water volume. Near the end, oceans and lakes would boil away, ice over, and then they would sublime away.

Your power requirements would continuously drop, with no cooling water, geysers would become volcano's, the ozone and carbon monoxide levels would drop below hazardous levels, global warming from greenhouse gases would end, pelting by sand grains and gravel would be severe with no atmosphere to burn them up, And of course without growing food, we would lose a lot of weight.

Earth would become a (non)living hell.

Rich

Nice. Did you say no more frost on my windshield? That would definitely be a plus.

Sinple, just look at the moon.

dellori3

Where's our botanists ?? Don't plants breathe out O₂ by day and then CO₂ by nite?

My guess is the oceans and lakes would begin to evaporate and replenish the atmosphere and your expelled plant liquids would equal the oceans which happens by NATURE already. Ain't no getting rid of any materials on this planet except for the space junk we expel, which I here we've even made THAT a wandering junkyard !!

Interesting thinking though.

Add in that without an atmosphere to burn up meteors, a 1 gram rock, roughly 3./8 inch diameter striking something (or someone) at 40,000 mph would have the same impact as a 2007 Chevrolet Impala hitting at 35 mph. Or a 3,000 pound rock dropping 36 feet. But without air in the soil, you would not get too big of a crater. A head or gut might be a different story.

It would sure wreak havoc with my home roof, or my car roof. And I think the water on Earth would be the equivalent to 1.5 miles deep across the whole planet, so the water storage you would need on half of the world would be about 3 miles tall, with a pressure

At the bottom of your tank would be about 600 bar, but then a bar would be torrs, so 7500 psi.

Rich

that would leave you with half of a nothing to do whatever with.