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Biosphere 2, with upgraded solar panels in foreground, sits on a sprawling 40-acre (16-hectare) science campus that is open to the public. The Biosphere 2 project was launched in 1984 by businessman and billionaire philanthropist Ed Bass and systems ecologist John P. Allen, with Bass providing US$150 million in funding until 1991. [7]
The Institute of Ecotechnics, which described itself as an ecological think tank was financed by Ed Bass, who also funded the Biosphere 2 project. [3] [4] In 1986, Nelson and John Allen had co-authored Space Biospheres, which outlined the plans for the biosphere and its scientific rationale.
[7] [8] It collected corals off the Yucatan coast for the Biosphere 2 project and from 1996-2008 teamed with the Biosphere Foundation to map and study coral reef health at many locations in the Pacific and Indian oceans. [9] [10] Its most recent work was an oral history project among the port and sea people of the Mediterranean. [11]
Controlled (or closed) ecological life-support systems (acronym CELSS) are a self-supporting life support system for space stations and colonies typically through controlled closed ecological systems, such as the BioHome, BIOS-3, Biosphere 2, Mars Desert Research Station, and Yuegong-1.
Biosphere 2 captivated the world's attention and imagination; Discover magazine asserted that Biosphere 2 was "the most exciting scientific project to be undertaken in the U.S. since President John F. Kennedy launched us toward the moon," [20] and talk-show host Phil Donahue, in a live on-site broadcast, called Biosphere 2 "one of the most ...
Also, Biosphere 2 likely depends heavily on the tourism to fund itself so the complete sealing of it is unpractical but there are other places where there are better seals such as the agricultural domes which are being converted to a new experiment. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.56.191.137 22:37, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
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2 Two year enclosure was way too ambitious. 10 comments. ... 4 CO 2 Levels. 5 Terminology. 2 comments. 6 The Biosphere 2 Project and History. 1 comment. 7 Project ...