09-10-2013, 08:21 PM
There is the Life Support requirement for the people working the farm, and then there is what the farm itself needs. It takes a lot of water and air to grow plants, so I think it merits having farms consume Life Support capacity (over and above their workers needs.) I guess the main problem I have with the way hydroponic farms work now is that they require NO inputs if running in orbit. It's not realistic, and I imagine it would be a fairly simple change to make operating farms depend on Life Support.
The Water idea is probably somewhat more complicated to develop, but still worth doing I think.
The Water idea is probably somewhat more complicated to develop, but still worth doing I think.