“How to colonize Mars?” Ideas about: how to colonize the red planet. How to colonize Mars Pdf version. Read the article Read the article Read the article Read the article Read the article Read the article Read the article Read the article
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The Canadian government’s study on the benefits of supplemental carbon dioxide in greenhouses and the insane costs of supplementing plants with CO2 shows that some plants experience skyrocketing growth and profits if extra CO2 is provided. The downside is that it costs around $60,000-$100,000 for the machine itself, with similar costs for yearly maintenance. Check…
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Make it cheap … biology? The following section was written a few years back. It reflects the ideas, challenges, and vision at that time. While the tone might differ from today’s introduction, the insights remain valuable and relevant. Chickens are covered with feathers. Temperatures as low as -30°C (-22°F) shouldn’t be a problem for them.…
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Houses engineered to love the most extreme weather conditions like: waves, tornadoes, earthquakes, never ending rains & constant blizzard. Building cost is roughly 2-7k / room. Check out the free blueprint.
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Colonizing Mars How to colonize Mars Pdf version. Neurons. Imagine a city … like a living organism. For start … we will start with the “cells”. And will build it up to a complex system. A system that relies on modularity, safety, predictability. A conservative approach. In spite of being modular and predictable … it…
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blueprints | intro Blueprints and tutorial with the best of the best, easy to implement ideas about how to build premium luxury houses under 5k / room. It can be any size, shape, style and form. On the homepage you’ll be able to see all of the additional benefits as well. few tricks we…
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Tunnels are predictable and scalable. Keeping it narrow at first … and when technology advances we can go wider and wider. As an example: building 200m wide domes instead would be gambling in a way. It would hold back economy. Smaller projects / modularity can help us to advance with literally tens of thousands…
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blueprints | structure Let’s start with the structure. Houses under 5k / room. Within this particular design we use lots of glazing. As a hint … it’s not glass. Meanwhile we have closed, insulated portions as well. We show the principles, engineering as a solution. The form and shape itself is irrelevant in a way.…
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Energy & Infrastructure Odd way to get electricity. Fusion and similar advanced technologies are not within our reach for now. Unboxing it like an IKEA furniture is highly unlikely. In case of a malfunction: shipping a simple “chip” would take months. Best case. Thinking of a centralized construction with “thousands upon thousands” of trained elite…
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blueprints | welding vs screws? Credits to my father here. Basically I re-engineered the whole house because of it. He nailed it thinking about this idea. Let’s see the benefits. Welding or using screws? We really like the idea of using screws because you don’t need a team on site that has all…
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Energy source Thin metal sheets and thin cables. Sent from Earth in the beginning … then manufactured on Mars. This design can “grab” the wind quite well. Almost no materials needed. Lack of “gravity” and extreme winds would let us go with even a taller … and lighter design than on this example. …
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blueprints | foundations Foundations here it’s like dating. You can’t tell a hot woman or boy what you want. Everybody would play offended. So we are running the circles 🙂 We don’t need foundations here or its symbolical. Like literally. However I force myself to draw a foundation. Like asking about childhood dreams on…
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Tunnels In time technology advances. We will be able to dig wider and wider. Imagine parallel, multi-level 3d interconnected framework built up from tunnels. The possibilities are endless. A sketch to show the main idea. We’ll zoom into them on the next page. For now, just notice the scale. Within relatively small openings we can…
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blueprints | structure metal Check out a few methods to prepare the foundations for the house. Look how easy, cheap and fast solution it is. Be it on a small or on at a grand scale. On the video we still don’t have the concrete part poured. And I left the whole frame…
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Food | the tunnel s A mega-project to mimic nature Biosphere 2 didn’t worked out on Earth. Unfortunately, dozens upon dozens of unpredicted problems appeared. Inhabitants needed to walk out of the sealed enclosure. We can’t risk with projects like this on Mars. We want to avoid unpredictability. The lack of a powerful Sun,…
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blueprints | structure columns At the ceiling …instead of metal ….we’ll use wooden beams to avoid dew point. On this video I just show where the metal parts will come. Far away from the facade. We can prepare them at this stage. Before pouring concrete we can take 1 of metal beams on each…
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Socio cultural. The more we repeat an idea /construction the more cheaper and accessible it becomes. This so-called receptiveness opens the doors for millions. Therefore by definition the more chaotic untamed and undistinguishable it becomes, if it makes sense. We go wider and wider. No need to reinvent the wheel from scratch every given time.…
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blueprint | roof Notice the roof is a huge piece of wood. With metal bars on top. Zinc coating on the metal. A great choice to boost longevity. Metal beams with zinc on top of wooden beams. Not paint !!! It deals amazing with humidity. Preserves metal against rust. In that zone dew…
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blueprints | ceiling Shou shugi ban. My first choice of materials would be shou shugi ban. Read the article about it here Japanese method of burning wood. I would use it for the ceiling and wooden beams as well. However wood prices shoot for the moon lately. Ferrocrete, ferrocement is a cheaper, more durable…
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blueprints | roof beams When a picture tells 1000 words. The images are self-explanatory. We use screws or welding to hold them together. Preferably screws as explained in previous sections. Note that at the end …. (where we don’t have a building below) the metal beams need some X,Z,V shaped REINFORCEMENT to make…
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