ISS Gets New Recycling Gear, Ready For Larger Crew 158
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.
Re:Waste hydrogen? (Score:5, Informative)
Waste hydrogen? I would have expected them to have some use for that.
The obvious thing to do with hydrogen is to use it as fuel. But think about it: burning it would undo the electrolysis by consuming all the oxygen generated, so unless they are looking for a way to convert electricity into a chemical fuel, it isn't very useful...
if oxygen is scarcer than energy, burning stuff isn't a sensible thing to do
Re:I always thought... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Waste hydrogen? (Score:3, Informative)
Generally, that hydrogen will require oxygen(e) to be useful, and they're splitting the oxygen off for other uses already.
Re:Water into code? (Score:2, Informative)
What if they have to maintain someone else's Perl?
Friends don't let friends code Perl, either.
Re:Waste hydrogen? (Score:5, Informative)