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rinselberg
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DEC 20, 02:39 PM
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Using wind turbines or other wind energy devices to generate power for in situ Mars applications like human-crewed research bases has long been dismissed as impractical. The Martian winds were considered too sporadic and unreliable, and the extremely rarified atmosphere—hardly any atmosphere at all—was thought to rule out any possibility of wind turbines or other wind-powered electrical generators.
This conventional wisdom has suddenly been turned on its head by a new and groundbreaking research report that's just been published in the science journal Nature.
After revisiting data from previous Mars missions and combining every quantum of information that's been gleaned about the Red Planet, a team of NASA researchers led by postdoctoral fellow Victoria Hartwick set up Greta Thunberg-inspired computer models of the "fourth rock from the Sun" and after cranking the numbers, this intrepid team of armchair Martian explorers is decidedly enthusiastic about the prospects for wind energy on Mars. Their mantra is "Green energy for a red planet."
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| quote | WHAT THEY FOUND — The team announced in their paper that wind power is a stable and sustained energy source across “large portions” of Mars. They found roughly 23 sites where wind could yield a good amount of power to complement solar arrays.
One of their top candidates is Deuteronilus Mensae 2 (35° N, 23° E), located in the southern highlands near the border with the northern lowlands, where glaciers may have existed as recently as 10,000 years ago. Another is Protonilus Mensae (38° N, 48° E), a mid-latitude region with a topography that an Arizona State University blog describes as “brain terrain.” Its interconnected troughs and ridges may have formed when water ice turned from solid to gas, or sublimated.
WHAT’S NEXT — Though not an engineer, Hartwick says the study is an invitation to the broader engineering community to investigate how a wind turbine would work on Mars, with a design that would be resolute against the planet’s dust, and designed in a way that it could travel from Earth to Mars, to help explorers reach places on the Red Planet thought to be inaccessible. |
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"This overlooked resource could be the key to powering a Mars colony"
Doris Elin Urrutia for Inverse; December 19, 2022.
https://www.inverse.com/science/mars-wind-energy[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 12-20-2022).]
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WonderBoy
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DEC 20, 08:03 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by rinselberg:
Using wind turbines or other wind energy devices to generate power for in situ Mars applications like human-crewed research bases has long been dismissed as impractical. The Martian winds were considered too sporadic and unreliable, and the extremely rarified atmosphere—hardly any atmosphere at all—was thought to rule out any possibility of wind turbines or other wind-powered electrical generators.
This conventional wisdom has suddenly been turned on its head by a new and groundbreaking research report that's just been published in the science journal Nature.
After revisiting data from previous Mars missions and combining every quantum of information that's been gleaned about the Red Planet, a team of NASA researchers led by postdoctoral fellow Victoria Hartwick set up Greta Thunberg-inspired computer models of the "fourth rock from the Sun" and after cranking the numbers, this intrepid team of armchair Martian explorers is decidedly enthusiastic about the prospects for wind energy on Mars. Their mantra is "Green energy for a red planet."
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"This overlooked resource could be the key to powering a Mars colony"
Doris Elin Urrutia for Inverse; December 19, 2022.
https://www.inverse.com/science/mars-wind-energy
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Better make sure all those exploiters "explorers" have dark skin tones. For if they have light skin tones, oh man you know what'll happen.
Free Mars NOW!
What's interesting about Mars is, if one single microbe of bacteria or cell of some type is discovered on Mars, scientists will declare "life was/is on Mars". BUT, an actual living and dividing cell in a WOMAN'S uterus is not considered life. Funny that.
Another thing great about Mars, they make great chocolate candies.
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cliffw
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DEC 23, 09:50 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by WonderBoy:
What's interesting about Mars is, if one single microbe of bacteria or cell of some type is discovered on Mars, scientists will declare "life was/is on Mars". BUT, an actual living and dividing cell in a WOMAN'S uterus is not considered life. Funny that.
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Not funny that. True that.
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