Timeline for In this scene from the novel, 'The Martian', by Andy Weir, how does Mark Watney store hydrogen made from water in the tank?
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| Oct 13, 2019 at 23:58 | comment | added | racraman | @DavidTonhofer Not a problem for only for a short period of time. The immediately following sentence after the section quoted is "The final step was to take the airlock's holding tank to the MAV and transfer the contents to the MAV's hydrogen tanks." | |
| Oct 13, 2019 at 21:44 | comment | added | David Tonhofer | I have doubts that the holding tank will be able to keep hydrogen if it is designed for air... energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/gaseous-hydrogen-compression | |
| Oct 13, 2019 at 12:56 | comment | added | richardb | @Kshitij I see what you mean now. Yes, looks like a typo. | |
| Oct 13, 2019 at 12:44 | comment | added | Kshitij | Thanks for the answer. But I understand what an airlock and an airlock's cycle is. My actual doubt is how could Watney operate the rover's airlock when he was inside the trailer? And does the inner door he refers to belong to the trailer's airlock, or to the rover's airlock? For the present I have assumed that there is a misprint in the novel, as that seems most likely. The correct version should be, "Then I cycled the trailer's airlock...". That would explain everything. But am I somehow wrong in assuming that it's a misprint? | |
| Oct 13, 2019 at 11:24 | history | answered | richardb | CC BY-SA 4.0 |