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This bicycle uses bellows to pipe air via respiratory equipment such as a well calibrated and corrugated hose and interface couplers to one's tracheotomy or nasal airway passages .
Pedalling a bellows equipped bicycle requires the rider to pedal against the additional force of compression which can
be minimized through inhalation.
Breathing is made easier due to the availability of a consistent and rhythmic supply of air to the vesicles where such a supply is needed most.
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I think the word "feedback" applies somewhere here. |
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A system offering cooling,filtration and oxygen enrichment would have many benefits. There would also be the opportunity of implementing Carbon capture in the expired air stream. [+] |
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wot [norm] said. I don't think the lungs are the "chokepoint" (no pun intended) in the chemical energy transfer, either. [ ] |
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I may be able to fit a set in behind me knees. One for my nose and one for my mouth. May help rest the old sacs and relieve them of wheeze. |
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altering breathing rate and defeating natural regulation of breathing will lead to death in a very short order. Too much or too little for long enough = passing out, eventually certain death. |
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Could be combined with <link> |
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have you ever tried to intubate a conscious person? It isn't easy. I've only ever seen one person do it to themself, and that was a youtube video of a military medic showing off a camera equipped laryngoscope. |
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Also, what WCW said with the added bonuses of pneumothorax caused by overpressure if it isn't properly calibrated. |
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Maybe you should see about getting some sort of bronchodilating inhaler instead? I think the results will be far more satisfactory. |
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Obviously, or not, the tracheotomy option was in jest to make a not-so-serious idea appear serious. However, I do think a bicyle can be equipped to supply a constant and rhythmic supply to the vesicles where such a supply is needed most. |
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excellent idea to try out. the system could also
power a pump to sequester the bodies CO2, for the
greener than thou types. The system may work for
work animals generating electricity or pullin our
wagons of the future. Float it and hook the bike to a
raft and snorkle, rent to tourists. |
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I really think it's a concept to explore. Consider also
the fact that we could breathe 02 rich air, consider
emergency workers and their need for every ounce
of stamina |
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something for snorkellers to allow them to get deeper and still inflate their lungs ? |
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No doubt it could work, should not require too much human
horse power. The bike topside could run a flywheel, and
you may get 10-15 minutes of air at shallow depths?
Cheap enough to try. |
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no, I mean an armpit-operated bellows sortof thing. |
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Can't it simply store the filtered air and supply it through a demand regulator? |
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The armpit bellows may be the trick. Another option
could be a tiny hand cranked air pump, and this could
be good because the legs are busy with the fins. To
work, fishing, the diver would just stop and do
whatever, and then pick up on the air pumping. |
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