Star Trek

Letting the Light Shine on Mars - Creating a habitat.

http://video.msnbc.msn.c...-news/46895978#46895978

http://www.enviromission...u/EVM/content/home.html

Although the need for such a large facility on Mars would not need to be built right away the same base of design seen in the video could be built on Mars to generate both electrical power and heat.

You will notice that in the movie there are what appears to be greenery underneath of the solar panels.

On Mars the outside perimeter of the tower would be enclosed with Gorilla Glass so that the process of creating oxygen would leak into the Martian atmosphere.

The enclosed facility would create heat that would be piped through the surface of Mars in order to heat the ground as well as being used to heat the facilities that would surround it. The electricity would be used to power many facilities.

Cynobacteria would be introduced into the facility where they would feed off of the carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide to create oxygen.

The heated surface of Mars combined with oxygen would also incite Martian microbial lifeforms to come out of their dormant state and begin moving about that would further incite the process of life to be reborn.

Any type of plant life needed for sustaining life on Mars could be grown under the paneling where animals such as cattle could also be kept for protein or peanuts could be grown if....peanuts would be better. It would be kinda silly transporting cattle to Mars.

The facility would need to be constructed near an region where frozen water was present so that water could be used to water the greenery with.

I am not certain though if water would condense on the surface of the paneling that could then be used to further water the greenery and for drinking uses.
 
The same process could be used on the Moon to provide humanity with exactly what humans need. Water, greenery,protein and space to branch out from the main trunk.
 

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Letting the Light Shine on Mars - Creating a habitat.

http://video.msnbc.msn.c...-news/46895978#46895978

http://www.enviromission...u/EVM/content/home.html

 

The solar tower is a fascinating concept on earth or off.