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Re: About the resupply missions in "The Martian".

From Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org>
Newsgroups sci.space.policy, sci.chem, sci.physics, rec.arts.sf.science
Subject Re: About the resupply missions in "The Martian".
Date 2015-11-04 00:03 -0700
Message-ID <d9toutF6trjU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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"Robert Clark" <rgregoryclark@gmSPAMBLOACKail.com> wrote:


>BTW, since this is in regards to "The Martian", for you chemistry heads out 
>there, are there some foods, liquids, or common materials that might be on 
>the shuttles that could have filtered out the CO2 in air other than the 
>lithium canisters? For instance perhaps the solubility of CO2 in water is 
>different than in O2 and there could have been a way to separate out the CO2 
>from the air that way.

There's lots of cold available, and low pressure that should make
refrigeration easy.  I'm not sure how "industrial" you have to get to
freeze CO2 out of the air, but it should be workable.  Fire
extinguishers generate CO2 snow fairly cheaply.
-- 
We are geeks.  Resistance is voltage over current.

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About the resupply missions in "The Martian". "Robert Clark" <rgregoryclark@gmSPAMBLOACKail.com> - 2015-11-03 09:56 -0500
  Re: About the resupply missions in "The Martian". "Greg \(Strider\) Moore" <mooregr@deletethisgreenms.com> - 2015-11-03 22:19 -0500
    Re: About the resupply missions in "The Martian". Snidely <snidely.too@gmail.com> - 2015-11-03 22:45 -0800
      "wget" will download it. Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> - 2015-11-04 05:26 -0800
    Re: About the resupply missions in "The Martian". Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-11-04 00:19 -0700
      Nitro Pro and SumatraPDF.  Not Adobe. Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> - 2015-11-04 05:09 -0800
      Re: About the resupply missions in "The Martian". Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> - 2015-11-04 17:13 +0000
  Re: About the resupply missions in "The Martian". Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-11-04 00:03 -0700
    Re: About the resupply missions in "The Martian". "Robert Clark" <rgregoryclark@gmSPAMBLOACKail.com> - 2015-11-05 09:18 -0500
      Re: About the resupply missions in "The Martian". "Greg \(Strider\) Moore" <mooregr@deletethisgreenms.com> - 2015-11-05 22:39 -0500
        Re: About the resupply missions in "The Martian". Jeff Findley <jfindley@cinci.nospam.rr.com> - 2015-11-06 06:24 -0500
          Re: About the resupply missions in "The Martian". Jeff Findley <jfindley@cinci.nospam.rr.com> - 2015-11-06 07:18 -0500
  Re: About the resupply missions in "The Martian". Jeff Findley <jfindley@cinci.nospam.rr.com> - 2015-11-04 05:48 -0500
  Re: About the resupply missions in "The Martian". Peter Fairbrother <peter@tsto.co.uk> - 2015-11-07 18:59 +0000
    Re: About the resupply missions in "The Martian". Peter Fairbrother <peter@tsto.co.uk> - 2015-11-08 01:18 +0000
      Re: About the resupply missions in "The Martian". "Robert Clark" <rgregoryclark@gmSPAMBLOACKail.com> - 2015-11-07 23:43 -0500
        Re: About the resupply missions in "The Martian". Peter Fairbrother <peter@tsto.co.uk> - 2015-11-08 23:18 +0000
    Re: About the resupply missions in "The Martian". Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2015-11-07 20:58 -0700
  Re: About the resupply missions in "The Martian". "Robert Clark" <rgregoryclark@gmSPAMBLOACKail.com> - 2015-11-13 16:26 -0500

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