Douglas wrote: > Ya, agreed, I was not questioning the rules as much as looking at WHY > they might work and HOW. > > Fish are super efficient at making meat out of feed!!! Chickens are > way better than cows at it! > > wiki > (FCR -- kg of feed per kg of animal produced) of aquatic animals. Fish > like salmon have FCR's in the 1.1 kg of feed per kg of salmon range > whereas chickens are in the 2.5 kg of feed per kg of chicken range. > Fish don't have to stand up or keep warm and this eliminates a lot of > carbohydrates and fats in the diet, required to provide this energy. > > So that is like 91% for fish and 40% for chickens. The fish waste goes > to feeding the plants along with the light making for a great ship > system.
Do you know Heavy Time and Hellburner by C.J. Cherryh? The main characters grew up in the outer system and moved into the inner system, closer to Earth, and then debated if real egg was more icky than the fake stuff, and if there was a moral difference between eating fish and mammals. _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
