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Old 12-01-2011, 04:32 AM
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Originally Posted by ArmySGT. View Post
The Hydroponics set up in PB is pretty small for 500 people. That are of N. Nevada and SE Oregon is pretty desolate scrub too.

So.............. food. What where they and the Teams in the Field going to eat when the ration packs run out?

Yeah it is gonna grow food, but not a lot and not much variety. Aquaponics is a better set up as it will add fish (tilapia, catfish, carp), crayfish (red claws are 1lb!), fresh water mollusks, as sources of protein to the diet. Still for 500?

Would need a whole cylinder just itself.

Have you noticed there isn't a cannery and/or a freeze dry facility in there? What replaces the ration packs at 30 days into the operation?
To really make Prime work, it looks like the Supply Cylinder would have to be gutted, moving the heavy industrial stuff out into the mission annex, and using the freed space for aquaponics as well as a cannery/freeze dry facility. I'm really starting to think that a fourth cylinder may be required just to help fix the obvious points!
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