The Flood - Animals and their minimum food requirement

Already with just 4 animals catered for (forgetting for a moment the 8 animals there to take care of all the others) we have a SERIOUS quantity of food stuffs. Some dry store well but many do not. How do you store all that fresh produce for that amount of time in that quantity in a time before thermal heat exchangers?

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Anyway to add to the figures: For 8 humans;Water: Minimum requirement of water per day is between 2 - 4.5 litres . For argument we will take the upper limit as these humans have a lot of work to do.So we have (4.5 * 365)*8 = 13140 litres (3471.22 US liquid gallons) OkNot sure how to calculate the food side.. Edited by ohnhai, : added water data for humans

On the subject of feeding the predators the best way to store their food would be as live animals.Doesn’t take a genius to see this greatly exacerbates our calculations as to the amount of food stuffs we need to load AND puts a dint in the whole 2x2 thing as well.

15mill gallons (us) of water is around 57,775 m3to store that much water in a footy (soccer) field sized space you need a tank 100m x 57m x10min other words your water tank would take one entire floor of the ark to a depth of 10m The food stuffs I have no doubt would fill that majority of the remaining two floors leaving almost no space for the animals.Anyway you cut it the ark story (as told in the bible is a prectical impossibility)