When a dome is built which has a 100 foot in diameter it would enclose 7 tons of air. The weight of the structure, of this size can weigh only 3.5 tons. The air inside the dome has a weight ratio of 2 to1 compared with the weight of the dome structure.
It starts getting more interest when you double the size of the dome to 200 feet, the air inside greatly increases to 56 tons. So the air weight inside increases by 8 times, due to the fact the space inside the dome increases by 8 times. While the structure weight just doubles to 7 tons, This means the air to structure ratio greatly increases 8 to 1.
When you double the structure again to 400 feet, the air inside jumps over 500 tones while the structure only weighs a mere 15 tons. So the air to structure ratio is 32 to 1.
When the structure is 1.5 miles long, the air to structure ratio is 1000 to 1. That's when it starts getting interesting. When the sun shines on to the structure it will then raise the temperature inside the structure. It has been said that the temperature inside, has to only raise by 1 degree and the oxygen inside would push the weight of the structure off the ground. As the weight of the oxygen inside and the building structure would weigh less than the surrounding atmosphere.
When a huge dome building structure looses it sense of gravity they are known as float-able cloud structures, in the morning you sometimes get low lying clouds, which is known as fog and mist, when the sun comes up and heats this cloud it then rises up into the atmosphere, domes which encapsulate huge amounts of oxygen also behave the same way.
In the next blog I will be talking about how much weight a rain cloud holds.
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