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So the idea was to create a personal portable areal beacon, that can be kept in a bulky bracelet, or hoocked to a backpack or a lifejacket. the aim of it is to help provide pin point location for a rescue. a lot of times rescue services are called for help in time, but providing an exact...

So the idea was to have a compact device that could be easily wearable, like a bulky bracelet, that would deploy a balloon with 10-50m line carrying a light and maybe a lightweight radar reflector. The idea is to help rescue operations in remote location/sea. Even with personal GPS beacons...

thanks for all your replies. So from the last answer it looks that only about 1 litre can be compressed in a cartridge, so not very useful at all, as as far i can understand, that could only lift less than a gram. I was trying to figure out if it was possible to build a inflatable personal...

Sadly my physics knowledge has rusted since high school, and i'm struggling to find an answer to my question. would it be possible to compress helium in a standard 12g co2 cartridge? would it be possible to compress enough gas to fill a balloon? If compressing any helium in a cartridge is...