How to Control Humidity within a Climate Simulator Biosphere CELSS-Video
Controlling Humidity within a Climate Simulator, Biosphere or CELSS is simple and easy to do. Watch this video to see how. Comparison between this BioSphere and NASA’s CELSS, click here General descirotion of the BioSphere/CELSS project, click here
How to Build a Biosphere-CELSS – Video
How to Build a Biosphere/CELSS. This video is an introduction to cultivating aerobic and anaerobic organisms to balance out a hermetically sealed container that is self-sufficient. Further Information on Biosphere Lighting, click here General Information on CELSS and Climate Devices, click here Earth’s History with Anaerobic and Aerobic Bacteria, click here Detailed Pictures of System [...]
Controlling light in a Biosphere, CELSS or Climate Control System with LEDs – Video
Controlling light in a Biosphere, CELSS or Climate Control System with LEDs – Video. Using LED lighting as the main light source for a BioSphere/CELSS. The LED lamps produce enough heat to heat and cool the whole BioSphere/CELSS. Cooling is the number one problem with Biospheres; not heating. Comparison between this BioSphere and NASA’s CELSS, [...]
Comparing NASA CELSS with Gardening Rhythms EcoSphere/CELSS
NASA CELSS program is very different than Gardening Rhythms EcoSphere/CELSS. The basic differences between the two programs are how an enclosed life support system functions and the use of anaerobic and aerobic bacteria. More information on Gardening Rhythms EcoSphere/CELSS, click here Summary of Similarities and Difference Similarities Both systems have a common goal of enabling people to [...]
Aquaponics Nutrients can be reclaimed by Filtering Aquaponics water by providing a light source.
Aquaponics Nutrients can be reclaimed by Filtering Aquaponics water by providing light source at the bottom of your tank(s). An example application can be accomplished with an HID (high intensity discharge lamp) lamp. The lower layers of an Aquaponics system can be clump up with anaerobic material that does not decompose easily. If one looks at [...]
Ancient Earth’s Atmosphere History – Oxygen for Anaerobic and Aerobic Bacteria
Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere – Understanding how anaerobic and aerobic bacteria evolve teaches us how modern Earth ecology works. Oxygen is the key turning point in Earth’s bacterial history. The GOE is one of the turning points in Earth’s creation of life. Below is a pictorial summary when free oxygen appeares in Earth’s atmosphere. The rest of [...]
Ozone (O3) sensors for grow chambers and tanks, Interfacing with embedded CPUs, ADC conversions ppb
Ozone (O3) sensors for grow chambers and tanks. Ozone is part of the Methane/Ozone/Sulpher cycle. When UV light is radiated on O2, it has enough energy to force a single O2 molecule apart and put it together into O3. Water in the air mixed with ozone creates hydroxides. When the hydroxide is mixed with CH4 [...]
Methane (CH4) sensors for grow chambers and tanks, Interfacing with embedded CPUs, ADC conversions ppm
Methane (CH4) sensors for grow chambers and tanks. Methane is part of the Methane/Ozone cycle. When CH4 (methane) is created from microbes decomposing organic material and releasing CH4, CO2 and H2O into the air. Methane rises into the air and mixes with hydroxides created from Ozone mixing with water vapor. Methane is monitored in CELSS [...]
Connecting MicroChip PIC18F4550 to a K-30 10,000ppm CO2 Sensor using I2C
Connecting MicroChip’s PIC18F4550 to a K-30 10,000ppm CO2 Sensor is easy and fast to do. This posting contains all of the source codes, schematics and application notes. The K-30 is used in a real application and the code is directly out of projects. Application of K-30 within CELSS The method presented here uses the “bit [...]
Anabaena Cyanobacteria Producing Oxygen – CELSS -Gardening Rhythms
Anabaena Cyanobacteria produces oxygen in water for fish and plants to grow. This is apart of the CELSS system. The CELSS system is a hermetically sealed biological system that only requires light and temperature cooling to sustain itself. The contents of the system never interconnected to the outside. When building a system like this, it is very important [...]
CELSS – Part 2 – Stablizing CO2 in an Enclosed Biosphere
CO2 can stabilize using portions of anaerobic, aerobic and decomposition microbiology in an enclosed eco-sphere. Adding more plants and soil in the CELSS system, Part 1, click here Below is a view from the top of the opened CELSS system. There are three plants. Two are growing in soil (back or top of the picture) and the [...]
Adding Soil to CELSS – Adding a Water table – Starting another Anaerobic Cycle
Adding- Soil to the enclosed life support system. This stage of development is adding two more anaerobic cycles to the system by adding soil. This is part two of an on going eco-system establishment with-in a closed life support system. In a traditional CELSS system for space travel, hydroponics is the choice for growing food. Food is [...]
CELSS Real-time Web camera Webcam Picture Updates – Gardening Rhythms
CELSS Real-time Webcam Picture Updates. Pictures are updated hourly. Press refresh on your browser to pick up the latest picture(s). They are the bottom of this posting. Bookmark this website and return often to see how experiments are going. CELSS project description, Click here Climate Simulation System Description, Click here Current Experiment (eco-system establishing) Setting up the Equipment to Feed [...]
CELSS – System Control Module Schematic – Gardening Rhythms
CELSS – System Control Module Schematic is used for controlling the vacuum pump, LED light, pressure pump, defrosting cycle, DP trigger thermo-electric device, freezer and control air valves. The main purpose for this control module is to have a physical connection to all off the CELSS functional equipment and displays all of the data it [...]
CELSS – Dew Point (DP) Condensation Trigger – Using Thermo-Electric Devices to Help Lower Relative Humidity (RH) in closed Systems
CELSS – Controlling humidity in a closed life support system or Terrarium. Dew Point (DP) Condensation Trigger – Using Thermo-Electric Devices to Help Control Relative Humidity (RH). For more information on CELSS project and description, click here For information how the Thermo-Electric Device is used in CELSS, Click hee Controlling humidity in a closed system involves [...]
CELSS Closed Ecological Life Support System Description/Introduction – Gardening Rhythms
Controlled (or Closed) Ecological Life Support Systems or CELSS was first pioneered by the Soviet Union during the 1950s–60s. Originated by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and furthered by V.I. Vernadsky, the first forays into this science were the use of closed, unmanned ecosystems, expanding into the research facility known as the BIOS-3 in 1965. Below is a [...]
Climate Simulator Data Collector Memory Map – Saving Climate Profiles in EEPROM
Climate Simulator Data Collector Memory Map - The memory map is for the remote data collector profile and for the Climate Simulator. The Climate Data Collector is housed in a bird house to prevent people from steeling it or shooting at it with a gun out of total bordom. For more information on the Remote Data [...]
Making An RS232 Network for The Climate Simulator – Protocol
Making an RS232 Network for Climate Simulator – Protocol is simple and easy to program for the PIC18F46K22 and PIC18F4550. This subject is way past gardening, but is more in line with information gathering for the Echo-Climate Simulator. The point behind this sort of network is to create an environment where a watchdog checks all [...]
Heating And Cooling A Climate Simulator or EcoSphere
Heating And Cooling A Climate Simulator or EcoSphere is not as simple as it may seem. The main flaw organizations have made with ecospheres is they make their buildings/systems like a glass house (greenhouse). The main issue each glass houses are heat retention and no cooling. Glass houses act like a lens focusing sunlight into the [...]
How to set up Ecological Characterizations Equipment for Carbon Dioxide, Oxygen, Methane and Ozone Measurements
Ecological Characterizations Equipment for Carbon Dioxide, Oxygen, Methane and Ozone Measurements needs to be done in a perfectly clean and hermetically sealed tank. Before checking anything, the equipment needs to be correctly set up. There are two parts to this. The first part is to set up the equipment and the second is to run [...]
Climate Simulator Data Collector Architecture
The Climate Simulator Data Collector Architecture contains a collection of atmospheric and aquatic sensors used to create feedback how an ecological system is balanced. These sensor monitor the quality of air, water and soil. For a climate simulator to function, it needs to collect data from the following cycles: Cycle Name: Where it exists: Comments: Methane/Soil/Ozone [...]
Carbon Dioxide Released by Mushroom Mycelium
Carbon Dioxide Released by Mushroom Mycelium can be measured and calculated for the volume of the mycelium present. In a hermetically closed environment, the amount of generated carbon dioxide has be consumed at the same rate its produced, else the system goes out of balance. This information is used to balance carbon dioxide sources with [...]
Using Dead Fish as Aquaponics Fertilizer – Decomposing Fish
This is an explanation of using dead fish as Aquaponics Fertilizer – Decomposing Fish. Throughout the year, I harvest my fish or they die on their own. For the ones that die on their own, I normally throw them in the compost bin; but I found a way to use the Aquaponics system as a [...]
Climate Data (Raw Data) – San Jose
The data presented here is only relative to the humidity, temperature and sunlight. It is not important to have the absolute values because we are really interested in the phase shifts between the humidity, light and temperature. We know the period is 24 hours. And the maximum and minimum values vary depending on seasonal changes. [...]