I heard someone call the ISS closed water system the infinite coffee machine. Yesterday’s coffee becomes today’s coffee.
It sounds gross but if we get good enough at it it’ll work.
Like any settlement on a frontier the first people in space aren’t going to eat well. They’ll survive. After a long time I imagine we will get good at growing and manufacturing food up there. It’s honestly not even close to the hardest problem. Full recycling and modular manufacturing for complex items is a lot harder.
It sounds gross but if we get good enough at it it’ll work.
Like any settlement on a frontier the first people in space aren’t going to eat well. They’ll survive. After a long time I imagine we will get good at growing and manufacturing food up there. It’s honestly not even close to the hardest problem. Full recycling and modular manufacturing for complex items is a lot harder.