ISS Gets New Recycling Gear, Ready For Larger Crew

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.

Webmaster?

[Swizec]

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?

Re:Yuk!

[maxume]

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

Re:Yuk!

[Smivs]

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

Oh shit!

Re:Waste hydrogen?

[Jeff1946]

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.

Re:Waste hydrogen?

[Anonymous Coward]

>Waste hydrogen? I would have expected them to have some use for that.

Probably not. It's not like there is any hydrogen shortage in the universe.

However, oxygen is another story. It's a bit of a necessity on the space station. Call us decadant, but some of us can't preform our duties properly without it.

Given that, do you really want to have a potentially oxygen-nabbing cylinder of hydrogen just sitting around the station?