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Legitimate_Plum674 t1_j5e6i55 wrote

Reply to comment by wasp463 in Wind Energy Could Power Human Colonies On Mars, Finds Study by upyoars

Good luck building a nuclear power plant on mars, it takes like 5-10 years. There are smaller ones of course, but it would still take a very long time since no one's there to build it.

Then you need water to cool the reactor, and there's not much water on Mars. And where do you get all the uranium from? There might be uranium on Mars, but then you need to dig it up. So you need to start a mining facility.

Fall out is not really a problem with modern nuclear energy. It's all the hassle to keep it running which makes it not worth it. Also, it's incredibly expensive. The maintenance would simply be a nightmare.

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wasp463 t1_j5ebxuh wrote

Id say the maintenance would even out considering the sheer amount of turbines you would have to build to make up for the weak wind.

This is all long term stuff anyway but you are going to need to ship in everything, a small nuclear reactor with water and uranium is a lot smaller then like 30 turbines

The first mars colony is going to be almost entirely dependent on the earth (moon maybe?) for some time till manufacturing gets up and running, better to go for density because you aren't building shit unless robots get way better.

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