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Quote:Currently, ISS astronauts and cosmonauts recycle used liquids, thus obtaining pure water. Processing urine can produce 75 percent of pure water, but it is planned to increase this number to 85 and then to 100 percent.
http://english.pravda.ru/science/tech/15...s_urine-0/
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(04-22-2014, 06:26 AM)chuck white Wrote: Quote:Currently, ISS astronauts and cosmonauts recycle used liquids, thus obtaining pure water. Processing urine can produce 75 percent of pure water, but it is planned to increase this number to 85 and then to 100 percent.
http://english.pravda.ru/science/tech/15...s_urine-0/
Hardly news. Mahatma Gandhi did it.
Given "climate change" we might all start chaining our diets to prepare for the day.