More People on the Orbit of Earth. How is it possible?
Posted on November 15, 2008 by admin Under Others · Leave a Comment
I am glad to see that people are more and more aware of the fact that water is a scarce resource all over the world. We can therefore only try to recycle and the first step has already been taken. The International Space Station is about to be the home of a new water purification system that will be installed in just a few weeks. This system will transform urine into water that you could drink, so that no liquid is wasted. It is not the first idea of this kind, as similar projects have been used on MIR and in the Salyut but they used to recycle the humidity, perspiration, condensation and aspiration in the atmosphere of the Space Stations. But now, scientists claim that with the use of this new technology, up to 92% of the water that the astronauts consume will become drinking water all over again. This product will be first tested in the coming weeks on a shuttle mission that will include 6 astronauts as opposed to 3, the general number of people involved in these dangerous flights. The mission will last for 15 days and the machine is expected to do its work exactly as intended. We have no doubt it will work perfectly.
via: engadget
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