Re: Taking a chance....baron_wasteMay 1 2015, 01:30:46 UTC
Well, thank you. R Zubrin's “Mars Direct” proposal involved sending an unmanned 'factory ship' ahead first, bringing hydrogen and solar cells; sitting on the Martian surface, it would use the atmospheric CO2 to make methane, which would be ready as a fuel when the humans arrived.
It seemed to me that titanic, possibly off-shore solar platforms drawing hydrogen from seawater and CO2 from our air could do the same on an industrial scale; a very clean-burning gasoline can be made from methane, and the supply would be inexhaustible . I'm glad to see an effort being made in the same direction. As the article points out, the result does not produce “greenhouse gas,” it uses it!
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It seemed to me that titanic, possibly off-shore solar platforms drawing hydrogen from seawater and CO2 from our air could do the same on an industrial scale; a very clean-burning gasoline can be made from methane, and the supply would be inexhaustible . I'm glad to see an effort being made in the same direction. As the article points out, the result does not produce “greenhouse gas,” it uses it!
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