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If you had a city, could you produce them locally then?

• tirant 2y ago
  Yes, but you then need to have an already developed full supply chain, and for that you need to bootstrap your energy production first hand. My personal hope is that there might be some untapped resources of hydrocarbons or methane in Mars that could be used to generate energy from local sources.
  • philipkglass 2y ago
    Local hydrocarbons could help for making materials/chemicals but they wouldn't help for energy. Mars doesn't have free oxygen in the atmosphere so there's nothing to burn them with.