On Mars, what must be done to enable construction of a fresh water lake for crewed mission use?
Just using the U.S. definition of quintillion: a thousand raised to the power of six (1018)
Quote from: LMT on 04/11/2016 04:09 amJust using the U.S. definition of quintillion: a thousand raised to the power of six (1018)That's still the equivalent of a 240 megatons of TNT. Or about five Tsar Bomba nuclear weapons. If you're just going to handwave that away with "proprietary process", no one is going to take you seriously.
You don't see SpaceX as a potential licensee???
A quintillion (10^30) Joules of heat is about 1/5th the energy needed to boil the Earth's oceans. You're talking about the energy equivalent of hurdling a Ceres-sized object from the outer solar system into Mars. And yeah, you probably WOULD liberate enough volatiles to partially terraform Mars, but that "proprietary method" of developing a quintillion joules of heat is kind of the critical step there...
Nuclear explosives are not used. The legal team knows the specifics, and has recommended the NDA on this point. But many other things can be discussed in open forum.
Morpheus: The human body generates more bioelectricity than a 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combinedwithaformoffusion, the machines had found all the energy they would ever need. There are fields, Neo, endless fields where human beings are no longer born. We are grown.
By the sound of it, this "startup" hired lawyers before engineers.
...anyone who struggled hard with a problem never forgets it...-Elon Musk
The artists rendition of the habitat also looks like the sci-fi representations of building domes over craters I recall as a kid. I LOVE IT!
So far, you have stated you have invented a magic box, capable of fitting on a Falcon Heavy, that unleashes Herculean quantities of energy on demand, and is 3 to 4 orders of magnitude lighter than known power sources. Yet its operating principle is so simple that you cannot breath a single word of how it conceptually works, lest the magic be stolen. It defies belief for all but the most credulous.
Quote from: strangequark on 04/11/2016 09:03 amSo far, you have stated you have invented a magic box, capable of fitting on a Falcon Heavy, that unleashes Herculean quantities of energy on demand, and is 3 to 4 orders of magnitude lighter than known power sources. Yet its operating principle is so simple that you cannot breath a single word of how it conceptually works, lest the magic be stolen. It defies belief for all but the most credulous.One would also think that such a "magic box" would have far more immediate and profitable uses than creating lakes on Mars.