What would be the best type of toilet to use for a moon base, composting toilet or incinerating toilet?
I think that composting toilet would be best because you end up with fertilizer for growing crops and such but the incinerating toilet greatly reduces waste by turning everything into ash. What is your opinion.
P.s. Sorry about the poop related question.
Both composting and incinerating require oxygen; it takes a lot of energy to get oxygen from moon rocks. The best type of toilet would be the freeze-drying type. You should recover every drop of moisture for reuse and dump the rest in the nearest crater.
After it piles up for a few years, you might have the capability of recycling precious minerals that would otherwise have to be brought from Earth.
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Both composting and incinerating require oxygen; it takes a lot of energy to get oxygen from moon rocks. The best type of toilet would be the freeze-drying type. You should recover every drop of moisture for reuse and dump the rest in the nearest crater.
After it piles up for a few years, you might have the capability of recycling precious minerals that would otherwise have to be brought from Earth.
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It is an important question. Whatever we ingest, has to be eliminated. And on the moon (as in space), its got to go somewhere.
Composting would be best use of the available raw materials and energy. With microbes and other additives (left over food waste), you could make a garden fertilizer. You do need to be careful with sanitation, since you don’t want to infect the base with who knows what. but its what we do already on this planet, just on a more intimate level.
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