Question by curious: What do you think of recycling human waste product for drinking on the shuttle and space station?
It sounds so gross, I don’t think I would want to consume it, but if it works, Gross!
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Answer by azn_t0mb0i
i agree… it’s reali gross
even the idea of recycled water turns me off =(
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Its not gross..
You just find out how to live without water and making water with the resources available to you.
Someday,you might drink your own waste by recycling it.!
Ah ha ha ha ha…my stomach hurts from laughing and puking at the thought of it. Think about how absurd this is. We’re drowning from too much water on this planet as it is. The Earth is 75% water, and new water is constantly added from combustion processes every second (propane, butane, jet fuel, methane, etc.).
New water is also generated every second from aerobic respiration. All they had to do was to design a dehumidifier type of machine to CONDENSE the water from the atmosphere. But oh no, that’d be too difficult, let’s make them drink piss and sh*twater instead.
Mars, here I come…there’s nothing I want from Earth anymore.
Cincinnati Ohio is about two hundred miles downstream from me. They drink the recycled human wastes of Pittsburgh and every other Ohio Valley town and city. But poor New Orleans. The drink the recycled waste of a third of the US….
Recycling waste water into drinking water seems to be the craze with municipalities. It was implemented in CA, and now other states are bent on doing the same thing…eeew.
I’d rather land on the moon and Mars and build a Fischer Tropsch reactor to make fuel. Then it’s just a matter of cooking, baking, roasting, etc. to produce water vapor and CO2 by burning butane, propane, etc. Initially, all you have to do is use a dehumidifier to condense the water vapor. All combustion processes produce water vapor and CO2 as byproducts:
Combustion:
Propane C3H8 + 5 O2 –> 3 CO2 + 4 H2O
Once a global magnetic field is in place, Aerobic Respiration will produce water vapor and CO2 in the lunar and martian atmospheres. All mammals (humans included) produce water vapor and CO2 as byproducts of respiration. So we can use our furry friends (squirrels, gerbils, weasels, lorises, lemurs, etc) to bioform the atmosphere, 24/7. They also produce methane gas, so you now have 3 potent greenhouse gases with which to build a rich and thick atmosphere over time. Pretty soon it’ll be flooding on the moon also!
Aerobic Respiration:
C6H12O6 + 6 oxygen –> 6 CO2 + 6 H2O + energy (ATP)
Superconducting Rings, between 3 to 14 Tesla, can be imbedded deep into the lunar crust to create a “global” magnetic field to block out cosmic rays; while an atmosphere blocks out uv, gamma and x-rays. Whereas permanent rare earth magnets like neodymium-boron-iron can create “local” magnetic fields for a small settlement. For example, it can be imbedded 20′ into the ground, under a dome, to protect 50 inhabitants.
It’s a pretty neat idea. I don’t know how efficient it is, but when your resources are scarce, you gotta do what you gotta do, use everything and don’t throw anything away. Plus, I bet that if you drank recycled water, you probably couldn’t tell the difference without someone letting you know ahead of time =)
All water is recycled. The water that comes out of your taps came from a lake or underground aquifer. Either way, it once had minerals, plant matter and animal matter in it. The space station is only practicing a more extreme form of it, and that is necessary because they have no lakes or aquifers in space. To not do it, it would be necessary to make weekly water deliveries and waste removal shipments. Not practical and very expensive!