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ISS Gets New Recycling Gear, Ready For Larger Crew

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yay-for-august dept.

TnGoastiiaiu submitted a space.com story that expands on coverage we've had earlier about improvements being made to the ISS to increase crew capacity. He writes "ISS gets new recycling gear that transforms human waste to drinking water. Some of the water will be used to get Oxygene, too. This way it will soon be possible to host more crew members. " Also, someone needs to smack the webmaster over there for putting a background texture behind the text. It's pretty unreadable along the left hand side of the screen.

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  1. Webmaster? by Swizec · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Also, someone needs to smack the webmaster over there for putting a background texture behind the text. It's pretty unreadable along the left hand side of the screen.

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't webmasters die along with the 90's?

  2. Re:Yuk! by maxume · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All the water on Earth is essentially recycled urine at this point.

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  3. Re:Waste hydrogen? by Jeff1946 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Best use is react with CO2 to form methane and water. Methane can be expelled thru resitojets (believe that is the right name) (electrically heated nozzles) to generate minor trust.