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--- In spacesettlers@y..., Ravenart@a... wrote:
> What about adding water to be a filter between windows?
>
> Carl

Certainly possible.

However the point of putting water on the mirrors- besides the fact
it saves surface area on the solid parts- is to have it in contact
with the atmosphere inside the colony. It would better encourage a
more natural weather pattern and moderate temperature.

The sunlight passing through it during the day would encourage
evaporation, the hot air formed along the axis by the convergance of
the three mirrors would pick up this water as it expanded outward and
started spiraling around the inside of the hull. This would encourage
cloud formation and rain.

There is a whole lot you can with water in a colony. You can use the
coriolis effect to create a natural downspin current. You can use the
natural pressure created to build landscaped streams and rivers
through the land panels. Thus the water never stagnates. You can use
the natural temperature gradient from the sunward end to the shaded
end to create another current...

I would try to send the colonies reclamed water through the farming
satellites, and then through the coolent systems for the sunward
factory block then back into the colony.