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Self-Sufficient And Sustainable Technology For Habitat Systems From Space To Earth (2012)
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Title: Self-Sufficient And Sustainable Technology For Habitat Systems From Space To Earth
Authors: V. Karga, I. Schlacht
Journal Name: 63rd International Astronautical Congress
Year of Publication: 2012
Page Number:
Category: noosphere
Availability: pdf
Detail Page: /papers/386
Web Link: https://www.extreme-design.eu/doc/IAC-12-E5-3-9.pdf
BoK Link: [[paper:386]]
Abstract
In Space habitats, many factors such as the high cost of material transportation have been pushing the research of closed-loop applications towards the regenerative life support system approach from both a physiological and a psychological perspective. Today, the increase in population and pollution as well as the global economic instability make autonomous production of food and energy a need for megacities, too. Almost since its beginning, settlement in Space has been conceived as “green” for survival reasons. Plants produce oxygen and consume CO2, while humans do the opposite. Therefore, there is the need to support each other. Moreover, there is the psychological factor, which applies to both cities and Space. It is important for humans to experience the cycle of life through the cycle of plants. The current Space research on life support systems is based on the work of microorganisms, vegetables and humans (e.g. MELliSSA) and has many similarities with the systems that are being developed for food and energy production in cities. The problems are basically the same, though they are much more extreme in Space (e.g. production of food, water, energy, heating, oxygen… and processing of human outputs - urine/feces- , rubbish, …). The Extreme-Design research group has been dealing with the psycho-physiological habitability of autonomous habitats in extreme environments since 2007, and has been working from 2009 in the EuroMoonMars ILEWG campaign at the Mars Desert Research Station simulation facility and has collaborated from 2011 in the project of Valentina Karga, “Machine for Sustainable Living”. This paper addresses similarities and differences between Space and Earth applications and proposes the exchange of information and technologies. Building such a system for cities could help experience how it would be to live in a similar system in Space, while we could adapt systems that have been designed for life support in Space to Earth applications.
Title: Self-Sufficient And Sustainable Technology For Habitat Systems From Space To Earth
Authors: V. Karga, I. Schlacht
Journal Name: 63rd International Astronautical Congress
Year of Publication: 2012
Page Number:
Category: noosphere
Availability: pdf
Detail Page: /papers/386
Web Link: https://www.extreme-design.eu/doc/IAC-12-E5-3-9.pdf
BoK Link: [[paper:386]]
Abstract
In Space habitats, many factors such as the high cost of material transportation have been pushing the research of closed-loop applications towards the regenerative life support system approach from both a physiological and a psychological perspective. Today, the increase in population and pollution as well as the global economic instability make autonomous production of food and energy a need for megacities, too. Almost since its beginning, settlement in Space has been conceived as “green” for survival reasons. Plants produce oxygen and consume CO2, while humans do the opposite. Therefore, there is the need to support each other. Moreover, there is the psychological factor, which applies to both cities and Space. It is important for humans to experience the cycle of life through the cycle of plants. The current Space research on life support systems is based on the work of microorganisms, vegetables and humans (e.g. MELliSSA) and has many similarities with the systems that are being developed for food and energy production in cities. The problems are basically the same, though they are much more extreme in Space (e.g. production of food, water, energy, heating, oxygen… and processing of human outputs - urine/feces- , rubbish, …). The Extreme-Design research group has been dealing with the psycho-physiological habitability of autonomous habitats in extreme environments since 2007, and has been working from 2009 in the EuroMoonMars ILEWG campaign at the Mars Desert Research Station simulation facility and has collaborated from 2011 in the project of Valentina Karga, “Machine for Sustainable Living”. This paper addresses similarities and differences between Space and Earth applications and proposes the exchange of information and technologies. Building such a system for cities could help experience how it would be to live in a similar system in Space, while we could adapt systems that have been designed for life support in Space to Earth applications.