Most of the water that is dumped comes from purified urine. For some reason no one wants to drink it. On 9 Mar 01, at 17:17, Ed Davies wrote: > Dale Ireland wrote: > > What is the source of the water? Power units? Dishwashing? > > Fuel cells. > > Oxygen + hydrogen -> electricity + heat + water > > Some water is kept for drinking, etc, - the rest goes overboard. There's a > contingency mechanism to dump waste water but normally it comes back down with > orbiter. > > See: > > <http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/sts-eps.html#sts-fuel-cell> > <http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/sts_eclss.html#sts_eclss> > > and particularly: > > <http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/sts-eclss-wcl.html> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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