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| July 28, 2020, post by Dave Santos Seasonal Storage: TUDelft Student Team finds Mars Colony AWE Solution To eke out enough energy on Mars for colonization is a tremendous engineering challenge. The sun is rather dim, and the wind is thin and weak, except when it storms, rarely. The solution, including AWE, turned out to be Seasonal Storage. Storage has long been an obvious energy advantage, on a day-to-day basis. Slowly, awareness is increasing that Seasonal Storage may be a necessity for true sustainability. Yet again, planetary exploration design speaks to our own world. As on Mars, variants of AWE may best fit opportunistic surge production. For example, long term dredging of sea-walls could advance by leaps and bounds during storm and tidal surge events. The life of kites in flight hours would be conserved. Arcadian Renewable Energy System | TU Delft Repositories
Alternative Mars-Colonization Energy Concept- Highest Density, Availability, and Abundance
Roll regenerating mass-carriers down-hill across vertical gradients like Olympus Mons and the rim of Valles Marineris.
Use excavations and spoils to create radiation shielded habitable mine
shafts and artificial caverns. There would be abundant high-power
available on-demand by this method.
Strictly-speaking,
Martian gravitational potential energy extraction is not sustainable in
the extreme long run, but could effectively catalyze colonization and
geoengineering.
kPower's
special planetary engineering-science expertise is not just how best to
use kites for energy, but also best judging when not to bother.
wiki/Regenerative_brake======= In
fact, Olympus Mons could be rigged as a multi-r AWES mast with
radiating kite-driven/mass-driven cableways. Mass storage sent downhill
to power colonization during calm could be returned uphill during wind
events, in a sustainable energy cycle.
Did any of the student teams happen to figure this solution out?
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