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Asked: January 12, 20222022-01-12T22:30:46+00:00 2022-01-12T22:30:46+00:00In: Education

Would it be possible to give a human artificial gills?

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Would it be possible to give a human artificial gills, capable of allowing humans to breathe underwater (with no outside source of oxygen except from H2O)?

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    1. Jennifer Tom
      2022-01-12T22:31:39+00:00Added an answer on January 12, 2022 at 10:31 pm

      Nope.

      Water contains less than 1% of the oxygen (as dissolved O2) that our bodies need for life. (Dissolved oxygen is the only form available to life; the oxygen in molecular H2O being chemically inaccessible.)

      No Gill structure that could conceivably be fitted to a human being could draw anything like enough breath for human life.

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    2. Johnny Adams
      2022-01-12T22:31:23+00:00Added an answer on January 12, 2022 at 10:31 pm

      Theoretically you could make such a device, but in order to extract enough oxygen to supply a human’s needs from just the water, the device would have to bigger than the human. (Even if you could miniaturize all the components, the volume of water you’d need to pass through it would result in a flow rate that would have lethal consequences for any human wearing the thing)

      At which point you might as well put your human INSIDE the device and call it a submarine.

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    4. Emma Deen
      2022-01-12T22:32:33+00:00Added an answer on January 12, 2022 at 10:32 pm

      Interesting one. Sharks are bigger than humans and manage with gills. I suspect the answer is no, because sharks and fish are poikilothermic, they adopt the temperature of their surroundings whereas humans and other mammals are homeothermic – they maintain a constant body temperature. There’s a huge difference in energy and therefore oxygen requirements. Humans burn smoking amounts of oxygen and food just to stay warm. You could have gills, but you’d have to be cold blooded.

      And you wouldn’t be able to make enough energy to power a human brain, a seriously power hungry organ. So you wouldn’t be human…

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    5. Marko Smith
      2022-01-12T22:31:05+00:00Added an answer on January 12, 2022 at 10:31 pm

      The theoretical answer is yes, but such an apparatus would be enormous, heavy, and use a huge amount of power.

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    6. Oscar
      2022-11-10T12:30:08+00:00Added an answer on November 10, 2022 at 12:30 pm
      Would it be possible to give a human artificial gills?

      As a practical matter, it is unclear that a usable artificial gill could be created because of the large amount of oxygen a human would need extracted from the water.

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    8. Anderson Juan Gym Instructor
      2022-10-30T09:24:13+00:00Added an answer on October 30, 2022 at 9:24 am
      Would it be possible to give a human artificial gills?

      As a practical matter, it is unclear that a usable artificial gill could be created because of the large amount of oxygen a human would need extracted from the water.

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    9. Oscar
      2022-11-10T12:29:11+00:00Added an answer on November 10, 2022 at 12:29 pm
      Would it be possible to give a human artificial gills?

      As a practical matter, it is unclear that a usable artificial gill could be created because of the large amount of oxygen a human would need extracted from the water.

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    10. Beno Luxury At Your Service
      2024-08-05T14:02:48+00:00Added an answer on August 5, 2024 at 2:02 pm

      Fish gills are highly specialized structures that can efficiently extract oxygen from water, which contains much less oxygen than air. Human lungs, however, are adapted to air-breathing and would need a significantly larger surface area to extract the necessary oxygen from water. Just as critical as oxygen intake is the removal of carbon dioxide. Any artificial gill system would need to efficiently handle the exchange of gases to maintain blood pH and overall homeostasis. I love fishing and I have seen the gills very closely during my fishing boat rental journey.

      Advances in bioengineering might one day enable the development of tissues or devices that can mimic the efficiency of natural gills. This could involve genetic modifications or synthetic biology approaches to create functional gill-like structures.

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    12. Ethan Jones
      2022-01-12T22:32:11+00:00Added an answer on January 12, 2022 at 10:32 pm

      The other answers all refer to extracting the Oxygen gas dissolved in the water.

      How about electrolyzing the water to get O2 and H2 gases? I have not made any calculation but the size of the apparatus will be much smaller (provided you have a suitable power source).

      The remaining problem would than be how to dilute the pure oxygen (to about 20% volume) to be breathable. It is well known that oxygen can be diluted with Helium, to replace Nitrogen for deep diving. However, the only other gas available from the electrolysis process is Hydrogen. I have no idea if breathing a mixture of 80% hydrogen with 20% Oxygen is safe. Does anyone of the readers know?

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    13. Oscar
      2022-11-10T12:30:39+00:00Added an answer on November 10, 2022 at 12:30 pm
      Would it be possible to give a human artificial gills?

      No, there is not a high enough concentration of oxygen dissolved in water to provide enough oxygen to a large warm blooded animal.

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