Space Settlement Designer's Corner

Inputs and outputs for one person in one day (averages)

• 3.1 kg of food (dry weight)
• 15-20 kg of water (including drinking water and the water content of food)
• 4.4 kg of oxygen

• 7.3 kg of urine
• 8.8 kg of "metabolic water" -- exhaled in breathing and evaporated from the skin
• 4.8 kg of carbon dioxide
• 0.88 kg of solid waste

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author: Al Globus

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