Re: How to really terraform (part 1)

From: TKalbfus (tkalbfus_at_aol.com)
Date: 06/13/04 

Date: 13 Jun 2004 16:00:17 GMT

<"We must transport that amount of ice from the poles to the equator,
forever.
If we build solar-powered trucks that can carry 200 Klb ice, and these
can make one round trip every 40 days (this is a speed of 10-12 mph
average), then they deliver 5 Klb/d. We would then need 80 million
such trucks.">

We could instead build a pipeline from the poles to the equator, use solar
power to split the water into hydrogen and oxygen, release the oxygen and
transport the hydrogen via the pipeline to the equator, Then we separate oxygen
from the local rocks and combine it with hydrogen to make water. You see it
would be easier to send hydrogen through the pipelines than water as the
hydrogen won't freeze.

Tom

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