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95 points mustaphah | 2 comments | | HN request time: 0.455s | source
1. radu_floricica ◴[] No.45665809[source]
I wonder:

- what's the actual oxygen carrying capacity? If they're up to human trials then I imagine they've already validated this step in animals

- can it also scrub CO2?

Without doing more research, I'm putting most of the probability mass into it being be a small but significant oxygenation aid. Not enough to let us survive without working lungs, but enough to push the odds in emergency situations, while also being harmless. Something like 5% extra survivability for a $100 cost and a sore butt. Well worth it, but not a revolution.

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2. Tade0 ◴[] No.45666678[source]
CO2 dissolves really well in Perfluorodecalin.

EDIT: I mistook solubility of oxygen by volume for that by mass - very different figure and of course effectively much lower.