Re: Running multiple HET in parallel?

From: Earl Colby Pottinger (earlcp_at_idirect.com)
Date: 02/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:54:57 -0600
To: sci-space-tech@moderators.isc.org

"Allen Thomson" <thomsona@flash.net> :

> I don't know enough about long-term nutrition and related
> matters to have an opinion, but note that the manned-Mars
> presentation at the recent Mars roadmap meeting contains
> the following assertions at slide 21:
>
> http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/apio/ppt/mars/human_studies.ppt
>
> Closing the life-support air and water loops with low
> expendables is a key leveraging technology for long
> duration human exploration missions
>
> Current food preservation technology is not capable of
> providing nutritionally viable food for the longer
> mission durations under study. Food production
> technologies under the environmental conditions of these
> missions is not developed to the point of being the
> primary source of food.

This reads like an out and out lie to me. Water storage is basicly forever.
But all the end-of-the-world nuts and people who just want long term safety
incase of a major national problem have been buying freeze-dried, canned,
sealed and stored in extra cold freezer food that is rated for 5-7-even 10
years storage. And that is just goe average calling a local dealer.

A quick google search using 'long term food storage' gives me for example:
http://waltonfeed.com/self/deh-veg.html

To me it sounds like some at NASA is fishing for more money instead of
storing dehydrated at low temperatures.

                     Earl Colby Pottinger 

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