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How about we mine mars to make solar panels from Iron Oxide? Or bring machines to mars that will build solar panels? Then we could have an entire electrical po
by geogra4 14y ago
How about we mine mars to make solar panels from Iron Oxide? Or bring machines to mars that will build solar panels?
Then we could have an entire electrical power source for human habitation or machine experiments.
- btipling 14y agoGetting to the point where the amount of energy it will require to get the panels out of Mars' gravity will be less than the energy delivered will take a long time. And what are you going to do when something breaks down?
- hexagonal 14y agoYou're 32 years late on that idea: http://www.islandone.org/MMSG/aasm/ http://www.islandone.org/MMSG/aasm/
- archgoon 14y agoAs it stands, we have not yet built a factory using exclusively robots. I'm sure that this would have very useful applications on Earth, as well as on Mars, if you were interested in tackling it :).
- Joakal 14y agoIf you want to start somewhere: http://phys.org/news/2010-12-sahara-aims-power-world.html http://phys.org/news/2010-12-sahara-aims-power-world.html