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This week, NASA revealed that the International Space Station’s Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) is recycling 98 percent of all water astronauts bring aboard the station..

This week, NASA revealed that the International Space Station’s Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) is recycling 98 percent of all water astronauts bring aboard the station…

    • XYZinferno@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      To quote the article that this post links to:

      “Let’s say you collect 100 pounds of water on the station. You lose two pounds of that and the other 98 percent just keeps going around and around. Keeping that running is a pretty awesome achievement.”

      This means that for any sample of liquid waste, 98% of that quantity will be converted back into water, while the remaining 2% will be discarded.