[OT] Interesting trip

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 05:48 -0500, David Bandel wrote:

> Actually, the waste treatment plants in the US (at least the newer
> ones), put cleaner water back into the rivers than reach the taps
> (after the water taken from the rivers has been treated).  The only
> reason the US doesn't do the recycled water bit is the reaction most
> folks have to the thought of it -- along the lines of what you allude
> to above (the "yuck" factor).
> 
> But any long term space station will also be doing it.  Nothing must
> be wasted (where would you dump it anyway?).  So folks will have to
> get used to it sooner or later.
> 
> I just hope these plants run on Linux/UNIX and not Winders.

Sorry. They run on Winders. There's an Engineering firm in Charlotte NC
that sets up these plants nationally and they use Winders. I did a brief
stint at HighPoint NC water treatment plant, knowing chemicals and
computers it was fun. It looked like the bridge of the Enterprise with
all the monitors and displays. One mouse click would fire up an array of
50 hp electrical pumps that would fill a large swimming pool size
storage pit in several minutes. It's a real trick to balance the flow
rate of incoming water to treat to municipal comsumption needs against
the time of day. Damn near rocket science for a good size town. Ric
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