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Laboratory Biosphere
Advanced Life Support System
Experimental Chamber
The Laboratory Biosphere
The Laboratory
Biosphere Experimental Chamber is a custom designed cylindrical
steel chamber, measuring 12 feet in diameter and 12 feet in length. The
chamber has an internal capacity of 1200 cubic feet and is connected to
a variable Volume Chamber (the "Lung") which, depending on temperature
and humidity conditions within the total system, varies in volume between
zero and 400 cubic feet. This gives a total volume for both chamber and
lung together of between 1200 and 1600 cubic feet.
The Laboratory Biosphere is a highly
sealed materially-closed system, designed to carry out cutting-edge experiments
that will further our understanding of the engineering and science of Biospherics.
In particular, the facility has been designed:
- to experiment with a sustainable
soil-based agricultural system;
- to study the biogeochemical
cycling of elements such as Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphorous and other
trace elements;
- to test candidate food crop
varieties and evaluate optimal lighting and other environmental growing
conditions.
The Laboratory Biosphere was designed and built by the Biosphere Foundation, Biospheric Design,
and the Institute
of Ecotechnics. It is now owned and operated by Biospheric Design, a division
of Global Ecotechnics Corporation.
For further information about
Laboratory Biosphere, please contact
Global Ecotechnics.
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