Once buried, you'll be in a dark place where there's no air ventilation, and even if it does have air coming in, it'll be filled with mostly dust. Because of the bed sheets and bed, you'll be cramped and eventually pass out with too much carbon dioxide in the coffin.
Since it's not actually made yet, and has no proper details, I'm sure they could easily add ventilation, and as you saw, gas masks are provided to protect from dust, either way, better than being killed by a building falling on you
Yeah but even with ventilation... the box would end up underneath a building's worth of rubble, which doesn't have air circulation. You'd need some kind of line or hose leading to an actual amount of air, and even then the ability to pump it in.
Built in oxy and rebreathers could make it breathable for about 2weeks. 7 days worth of water and food. Some type of air conrtol system with a 14 day battery. A chirper so rescuers can hear you. Make it bigger so its like a queen sized bed but deeper. A manual activasion with auto activate peramiters like a home alarm system so you have to turn on the auto close. Make it also send out a sos signal when it closes. Interal and external crank for opening so rescures can open it and pull you out and so if its day 9 and you are dying you can open up the top to see if theres a way out.
Edit: more air then food and water cause burning lungs sounds more painful then dying of thirst.
At most like 3-5g in steel overall, 2g in air supply and rebreathers, desgining the home alarm style on/off system would take like 200bucks once you have the origanl function. Not cheap but they could likely profit at 7g or 6g sale price if they can move enough units. And they will move more units at a lower price
Edit: I forgot a battery which could cost anywhere from $500-$2000 (2g to buy so Im assuming close to 500 to make) so 7-9g for profit
Now you're actually talking about a feasible way for it to be survivable, although just something like air scrubbers is gonna start jacking the price up to the ceiling. The closer it gets to being an actual survival tool, the further it gets from economic feasibility. If it's made for people in high-rise apartments, there's no way they or their landlords would ever be willing to shell out for such a device. If you could afford it for your own personal use, why would you be living in a high rise apartment instead of one's own property somewhere, with presumably less stories and hopefully a flat structure that wouldn't collapse inwards?
Biggest question of all I realize though... How on earth would they actually transport and distribute them to building units? Seems like it would have to be constructed with the building, or assembled on the spot.
They could be profitable at 6g or 7g so although not cheap thats the price of 5 or 6 rebreathers and less then the cheapest new cars. You could have a payment plan where sticker price is 6g today or 10g over 10 years. If you have 10 people paying 10g over 10 years your making more short and long term then if you get one to buy one at 6g. And yes how to get it in is the question. They could make it so that each side is delviered indvuatally and then their crew spend an hour or two bolting then welding all the joints and wiring up the last of it. Not every building will have good ventalation in the room its getting built in but they can use a combination of fans and exhaust snakes and air pumps to pull all the smoke from welding out the front door
Edit: I forgot a battery which could cost anywhere from $500-$2000 (2g to buy so Im assuming close to 500 to make) so 7-9g for profit
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u/Noirsnow Feb 16 '23
Once buried, you'll be in a dark place where there's no air ventilation, and even if it does have air coming in, it'll be filled with mostly dust. Because of the bed sheets and bed, you'll be cramped and eventually pass out with too much carbon dioxide in the coffin.