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Powering the Mars Base
This post is part of the series on space topics. This post is not the last word on this topic. The usual caveats apply. I’m curious if you have strong opinions on different fuel mixes. A grow…
Unlike the Moon, which is most efficiently served logistically as a kind of annex of Earth, Mars will have to localize power production and ultimately a good fraction of its material supply chain. The per capita power consumption of an aircraft carrier, for example, is closer to 40 kW, and that’s not including airplane fuel or the manufacturing required to build and maintain its systems, which occurs on shore. Three years ago, I founded Terraform Industries to bring the Mars synthetic hydrocarbon supply chain back home to Earth, to create unconditional energy abundance, to solve the climate carbon problem, to do something with our crazy surplus of solar panels, and to build factories in real life.
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