I spent a week at the Biosphere during the transition, after the old crew had been fired and they were trying to figure out how to salvage something useful out

I spent a week at the Biosphere during the transition, after the old crew had been fired and they were trying to figure out how to salvage something useful out of the project. It was a big a mess as every article written about it, including this one, said. One fact that stuck with me was all the sensor data was useless because no one had calibrated any of the sensors on installation. The other was that everyone universally agreed banana wine was disgusting. The sensors were a dumb mistake. But some of the other mistakes, like trying to get the gas balances right. Those seem like useful learning lessons. Ed Bass sure didn't get his money's worth out of the project and I'm not sure any of us did. But some useful stuff came out of it.