Lessons learnt from the Biosphere 2 experiment
APR 23, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023280
Wired.com : In most people’s minds, Biosphere 2 was a fabulously expensive failure, a $200 million earth-in-a-bottle that choked on carbon dioxide and was overrun by ants. But not everybody feels that way.
“In our view, Biosphere 2 was a tremendous success,” said Bill Dempster, the project’s engineering systems director and designer of the sphere’s remarkable lungs. “Many people don’t realize that hundreds of papers were written about it.”
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