Space Station Freedom will require between 584 and 767 pounds of water per day. To lift this into space would require four or five shuttle flights per year of nothing but water and tankage at a cost ...

In a remote, hostile, totally alien environment, every life-sustaining resource is precious. In space, other than air, none is more precious than water. Improving the careful use of that critical ...

The majority of the waste water from small isolated outposts such as Antarctic bases and planned Lunar and Martian bases consists of gray water-- water from clothes- and dish-washing, and crew hygiene ...

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / November 21, 2022 / The shift to membrane-based WFI production can significantly reduce utility use, shrink facility footprint requirements, and help meet corporate ...

It works on a different process (vapor compression distillation) which is, like the system behind Hydra, nothing new. What is new is Kamen’s optimization of the process so it can work from pretty much ...

Water takes up to 40 percent of the U.S. Army's daily logistical load -- nearly 55 pounds of water per soldier per day, when medical treatment, meal rehydration and bathing are factored in. The Army's ...

One of the primary techniques for separating the constituent parts of a solution based on their differing thermodynamic properties is short-path distillation. This process involves the selective ...

Joining forces with engineering firm Deka R&D, Coca-Cola has launched a project which will see the transformation of approximately 2,000 shipping containers into water purifying stations. Dubbed ...

Dean Kamen, creator of the Segway and robotic arms, continues to pop out innovations like Hollywood stars adopt foreign babies. The latest creations are designed for the developing world and deal with ...