Manure can produce heat in deep quantity. If thick enough surrounding a water tank it can heat the water even in Siberia. In space, human manure can be produced by astronaughts and used to screen out harmful cosmic rays. Gradually filling the empty space between bulkheads on a space station, with human manure, as food stores are depleted the cosmic ray shield ca be completed.
Cosmic rays may be stopped by a 15' thick barrier of water or ice. Frozen manure should work equally well
If the space-ship is a 2001-style circle with spokes and the manure fills the outer edge, it might be adapted to be a large electricity-producing alternator with a complex of magnetic coils around a central alternator. If enough mass is built into the perimeter shield wall and the wheel is rotating quickly enough maybe some artifical gravity could be made.
Cosmic rays may be stopped by a 15' thick barrier of water or ice. Frozen manure should work equally well
If the space-ship is a 2001-style circle with spokes and the manure fills the outer edge, it might be adapted to be a large electricity-producing alternator with a complex of magnetic coils around a central alternator. If enough mass is built into the perimeter shield wall and the wheel is rotating quickly enough maybe some artifical gravity could be made.
