From: Chuck Kuecker (ckuecker@ckent.org)
Date: Fri Jun 13 2003 - 14:35:16 MDT
At 10:10 06/13/2003 -0700, Adrian Tymes wrote:
>Or just store all of them, to the maximum extent
>possible. (Eliminating sweat, for example, would
>cause problems, but even there it could be made more
>efficient by removing the aromatic compounds, no?)
>Excrete only under controlled circumstances. If
>you're willing to go cyborg, make this to a small
>thermal depolymerization unit: turning organic waste
>into fuel was one of its expected uses anyway.
I keep hearing about thermal depolymerization as some sort of panacea. How
much thermal energy do you put in to a gram of waste for how many
milligrams of fuel, and what's the heating value of the fuel? Consider also
that human waste is probably 75% water - that needs to get separated out
first, most likely.
TANSTAFFL...
Chuck Kuecker
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