I have a friend doing a bit of copy-editing and general 'lets see if it flows' over the complete draft of the space farm book
Farms in Space: Balances for Life Support, Food, and
Settlement
All the illustrations, diagrams, and tables are done, as are references (though may need to be formattted for publisher)
also tying up the index and glossary while the editor is poking at it.
So far it is a little over 414 pages, with much of that tied up in 332 figures, and 88 tables, and no equations (though I do walk through examples).
Summary is something like this:
The future of space exploration, space stations, and space
settlements hinges on our ability to grow tasty nutritious foods as part of
recycling the air, water, and wastes from people in space. Technologies to make
this future occur are mostly already in use in urban farms, vertical farms,
chemical factories, and old school soil farms. This book provides a simple
walkthrough of the chemistry, biology, machinery, plants, animals, and
engineering required to make agriculture in space and closed loop recycling
possible. Targeted at any interested person, there are over 330 diagrams and
illustrations, dozens of tables, and simple processes that make anyone a future
space farmer. The book also includes a story to show what it is like to work in
a space farm, menus and meals from the farm, and future work to bridge the
technological gaps. The technologies and methods in this book can also find use here now, to feed a hungry world!
also shopping for a real publisher to carry it forward.
Ad astra!
Bryce
