Let’s build one. Start with a lithium battery vacuum cleaner. Plug the hose to the discharge. Make a manifold and and send 3 hoses and attach them to a upside down 5 gallon buckets. I’ll measure the top of a bucket and get right back.
OK, the top of the buckets are 12 inches in diameter and have a cross sectional area of 113 square inches x 3 upside down buckets = 339 square inches, If you had some sort of flexible seal that would keep them from leaking off you would need an air pressure of 200 lbs/ 339 square inches = 0.6 psi.
So if the blower side of the vacuum cleaner could blow at 1 psi and somehow it would keep the air from leaking off, you would indeed levitate a total of 200 lbs.
OK, the top of the buckets are 12 inches in diameter and have a cross sectional area of 113 square inches x 3 upside down buckets = 339 square inches, If you had some sort of flexible seal that would keep them from leaking off you would need an air pressure of 200 lbs/ 339 square inches = 0.6 psi.
So if the blower side of the vacuum cleaner could blow at 1 psi and somehow it would keep the air from leaking off, you would indeed levitate a total of 200 lbs.
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