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Re: Sabatier reactor? (was Re: Oxygen in Biosphere 2)

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From: Pat
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:51
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In article <C16M2y.4uJ@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au> ggm@brolga.cc.uq.oz.au (George Michaelson) writes:
|Does CH4 have any role inside a space station apart from making it
|smell farty?
|
|	 refrigerant gas?
|	 cooking :-) yes... I know it makes C02...
|
|Failing which would venting to space or using as supplement to position holding
|rocketry be worth the effort? 
|

Well, There was a plan to use it for stationkeeping but the SSF management
wienered out.  SOmebody told them because it hadn't been done it 
couldn't be done.  

I imagine,  heating would be somewhat difficult.

pat
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