Re: Running multiple HET in parallel?

From: Earl Colby Pottinger (earlcp_at_idirect.com)
Date: 02/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 07:57:50 -0600
To: sci-space-tech@moderators.isc.org

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

> Ian Stirling wrote:
>
>
> > The claim is basically rubbish.
>
> > No, freeze-dried stuff may not have all of the nutrients it once did
> > ten years out, or be quite as tasty.
>
> I checked on MREs and the Army's nutrition lab says that they're
> nutritionally good beyond 10 years if held unfrozen at 15 C
> (60 degrees 'murkin). So I agree, the claim that a few-year
> mission couldn't get along on preserved food plus some
> supplements looks pretty odd.
>
> If you can haul it, of course, but it isn't clear where the
> mass of a closed or semi-closed system becomes significantly
> less than that of a fridge full of high-tech TV dinner
> equivalents. And there are issues of reliability, power,
> contamination associated with a veggie garden in space, let
> alone an escargot ranch.

See, another problem. Escargot? When you could be growing shrimp, crabs and
lobsters? What a waste.

              Earl Colby Pottinger 

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