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Bravo. Now you need to factor in toilet facilities, and presumably potable water access so everyone can piss enough to cool the building hahahaha...
by 24gttghh 9y ago
Bravo. Now you need to factor in toilet facilities, and presumably potable water access so everyone can piss enough to cool the building hahahaha...
- logfromblammo 9y agoYou can use the waste heat to flash-distill the urine back into drinkable water. You're already running some heavy-duty nuclear reactors just to circulate fresh air into the building and waste products out, so the real problem, I think, is getting food calories in, and the solid waste out. Even if you can fix the structural problem, and the waste heat problem, and the CO2 problem, you can't get food into the building fast enough to feed everyone. A 2000 kcal/day diet for 7.6 billion people is 18 million tons of sweet potato running up the elevators all day, every day. New York is a freight transit hub, but I don't think it could currently handle 6.5 billion tons of freight annually. The entire US transports 20 million tons of freight annually. There's just no way. You would have to reduce the food to a liquid nutrient slurry off-site, and bring it in via pipeline. And your sewer... we're talking a literal river of poop, here, at 7300 cu.ft./s .