New technology allows recycling drinking water from sweat and urine

[CptObvious]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&n...=1&u=/ap/20050321/ap_on_sc/space_sweat

Tasty!

 

[DotheDamnTHing]

now i know why mountain dew tastes a bit funny 😉

 

[intogamer]

:shocked:

 

[sniperruff]

i thought of that idea when i was working at pall corporation (a major filtration company) and they just laughed and said that there are probably something similar out on the market already.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Why water! 🙁

I want one that turns sweat and urine into :beer:

 

[arcenite]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Why water! 🙁

I want one that turns sweat and urine into :beer:

Tech: You'd have to add the barley and whatever ingredients necessary.
Alcoholic: HELL YES

 

[Random Variable]

That's what already happens, albeit at a much slower rate.

 

[BigJ]

I thought this was old technology and used in space stations? 😕

 

[cjgallen]

"You cannot pee in a Mr. Coffee and get Taster's Choice!"

 

[ViRGE]

You know, these are really cool times we live in. I mean, everyone's fanticised about such a machine for years, but how cool is it that we can now reclaim potable water from practically any water source? I doubt this'll change much on Earth, but this brings us that much closer to really being a people of the stars.

 

[Juice Box]

I think Paul Artredies used this in dune.....

 

[neonerd]

Don't machines tend to malfunction occasionally? 😕

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Why water! 🙁

I want one that turns sweat and urine into :beer:

You can do that, but it's call near-beer.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Juice Box
I think Paul Artredies used this in dune.....

All the Fremen used stillsuits.

Atreides, btw.

 

[Wadded Beef]

"stillsuits" was the first thing to come to my mind as well

 

[CptObvious]

Originally posted by: neonerd
Don't machines tend to malfunction occasionally? 😕

Or like when you're at a fast food joint, and you ask for a cup of water. Sometimes the water shares the same spout as the lemonade, so when it dispenses the water you can still taste the residue of lemonade syrup.

Just a thought 🙂

 

[LS20]

Originally posted by: BigJ
I thought this was old technology and used in space stations? 😕

yup... way old technology... although they stopped using it for drinking water (for psychological reasons) and converted it to breathing oxygen instead

 

[aircooled]

can i still keep the booze from my pee?

 

[Wadded Beef]

watch the amazing houdini as he turn beer into URINE!!!!

 

[sharkeeper]

I want one that turns sweat and urine into

Just piss into an MT Budweiser can and chill it. No wait, that's an upgrade!

 

[Locut0s]

"It's a question NASA (news - web sites) researchers have pondered for nearly two decades, but villagers in Iraq and tsunami victims in Asia will get a taste of their answer as early as this fall ? before any astronaut in space does."

Hasn't NASA been doing more than pondering this. I thought the shuttled has used such a recycling system for years. Or do they simply mean that Iraq will get this before the shuttle goes up again.

 

[Sheepathon]

i hate water

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: Locut0s
"It's a question NASA (news - web sites) researchers have pondered for nearly two decades, but villagers in Iraq and tsunami victims in Asia will get a taste of their answer as early as this fall ? before any astronaut in space does."

Hasn't NASA been doing more than pondering this. I thought the shuttled has used such a recycling system for years. Or do they simply mean that Iraq will get this before the shuttle goes up again.

My understanding is that earlier recycling systems have been very limited on what they can recycle and can only do things like "grey water" where there are foreign substances(say soap) in the water but they aren't organic. This seems to take it a step further, they're talking about reclaiming "black water" too, and it would be the first time such a technology was used.

 

[Atomicus]

wasn't it Dune, not waterworld?

 

[sharkeeper]

It was waterworld opening with KC pissing into a flask and pouring it and pumping out drinking water or some stupid sh!t like that. I didn't enjoy that movie but I love the concept.