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That was very interesting. I did some Googling and my country ships back ~5.5 tons of '20% dry sludge' per year back to New Zealand from Scott Base. It looks l
by teruakohatu 4y ago
That was very interesting. I did some Googling and my country ships back ~5.5 tons of '20% dry sludge' per year back to New Zealand from Scott Base.
It looks like McMurdo is drying out the sludge more. My back of the envolope calculations based on an old article [1] are that McMurdo could be shipping as much as 50-80 tons of dried sludge back to the USA each year
[1] https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/frozen-wastes/ https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/frozen-wastes/