From: J. R. Molloy (jr@shasta.com)
Date: Sat Aug 26 2000 - 21:09:16 MDT
>returning warm water via a mouth tube,
> capillary flow presumably powered by the motion of the limbs.
>
> Damien Broderick
>
"The waste is processed using pumps that are powered by the legs while walking."
[no capillary action required]
" ...reverse osmosis is probably a more viable method using the power of walking
to drive pumps. Along with rebreather technologies being developed by the US
navy, explorers could survive in hostile environments longer carrying only food.
Along with similar technologies being used in the spacecraft, this allows for
significant reduction in basic supplies required. Some of these properties are
probably available in existing space suits but more work should go into
extending the time someone can survive on their own."
http://itsf.spaceart.net/factsheets/factsheet11.html
--J. R.
"Something beckons within the reach of each of us
to save heroic genius. Find it, and do it.
For as goes heroic genius, so goes humankind."
--Alligator Grundy, _Analects of Atman_
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