> In theory, exactly right. But the ISS recovers water from both cabin > air (for > more drinking/washing) and from urine (for electrolysis into > oxygen), and > there's some excess of the latter. PLUS the humidity recovered in > the US > segment cannot be transferred to the Russian segment's equipment for > > re-purification, there are some equipment problems, and there's also > problems > with the dump valve. So they throw away water now as a fairly > temporary > expedient. So, to be clear - the water that's being dumped from the ISS is, essentially, dirty water? ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W http://www.angelfire.com/stars2/projectorion 4 hours behind UT (-4) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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