wastewater treatment

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Combs, Mike"
> Marshall Savage (Millennial Project) had made a case for
Supercritical
> Combustion Chambers for this application. I take it that the
argument
> is that while this has never been economical here on Earth due to the
> huge requirement of heat energy, it becomes viable in the situation
of a
> flimsy 0-G mirror outside the shadow of a planet.
>
> What's the general consensus on this?
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike Combs

while I can see some heat for pathogen destruction I would not want to
get rid of the organic matter if it can be used in the plant life
cycle. If there is no plant life cycle then it would not matter if it
was broken down completely by heat.