<div>I have nothing running ATM but I did a lot of monoculture algae work when I was in aquaculture program at UH</div><div><br></div><a href="http://contrails.iit.edu/DigitalCollection/1962/AMRLTDR62-116article03.pdf">http://contrails.iit.edu/DigitalCollection/1962/AMRLTDR62-116article03.pdf</a> <div>
<br></div><div>This is where I got my ideas. </div><div><br></div><div>My test reactor is going to be 18" x 24" x .2"</div><div><br></div><div>Man sized reactor will be 24" x 48" x .2-.09 with ~20 of them in parallel. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Algae will be extracted via this device.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.parc.com/services/focus-area/clean-water/">http://www.parc.com/services/focus-area/clean-water/</a>
</div><div><br></div><div>and o2 / co2 / vox will be monitored by sensors on arduino control.</div><div><br></div><div>Short term plan is to replicate the boeing experiment and adapt for longer term production</div><div>
<br></div><div>Longer term, utilizing human wastewater as a nutrient supply and electricity source with waterwater fuel cells. </div><div><br></div><div>Each project is part of a larger plan for a compact biological closed cycle habitat.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Máté Ravasz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ravaszmeister@gmail.com" target="_blank">ravaszmeister@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br><br>I've just started to build up my own algae cultures at home last month. Seeing your post on how far you've progressed already in this, I immediately became jealous. Would you by any chance have any publicly available data on how your setup runs? I am building a sunlight powered reactor at the moment, but I would be eager to read up on more advanced methods if possible.<br>
<br>Thanks for any info,<br>Mat<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 September 2012 22:48, cole santos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cksantos85@gmail.com" target="_blank">cksantos85@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">For big area lighting plasma is more efficient than leds.
<a href="http://www.plasma-i.com/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.plasma-i.com/index.html</a> <div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:46 AM, cole santos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cksantos85@gmail.com" target="_blank">cksantos85@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">LED's are more expensive than florescents...and that is after order of magnitude reductions in cost over the last few years. I found some vendors in china for LED lights. Florescent technology requires bulb changes every 6 months to a year, this makes it unworkable for space, but good for earth testing. LED research on optimal spectrum for algae growth is an open research field. Another problem is the design for my algae reactors needs lights that are 360, but leds are about 130 deg. a bi directional light would cost a lot more due to custom nature of such a light, another option is to just stack 2 lights back to back... but now you've doubled you costs and lighting is more that 50% of the total cost.<div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Jerry Isdale <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:isdale@gmail.com" target="_blank">isdale@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word">Growing in space requires light. Space stations may be able to orient themselves for full time growing but Colonies on moons, etc will need some power source for when their rotation takes them into night (moon night = 2 weeks). <div>
<br></div><div>This article talks about using LEDs powered from a small nuclear power source, similar to that powering the Curiosity Rover.<br><br><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2012/08/31/space-farmers-leds-as-key-to-nasas-permanent-lunar-life-support/" target="_blank">http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2012/08/31/space-farmers-leds-as-key-to-nasas-permanent-lunar-life-support/</a>
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