Making Rocket Fuel on Mars - TR2016c 1h44m58s00f
Channel: Thorium Remix
Date: 23/03/2017

http://ThoriumRemix.com/ Dr. Simon Foster explains how frozen water found near the Martian surface can be dissociated into Hydrogen and Oxygen, and combined with Carbon in the Martian atmosphere to create rocket fuel. The missing ingredient is energy.

An energy solution for making rocket fuel on Mars could also address our clean-energy challenges here on Earth... if we can get past our technological lock-in to conventional nuclear power which is offering us diminishing returns.

Thorium is an element found everywhere. On Mars, on the Moon and here on Earth along side Rare Earth Elements [REE]. Meeting domestic consumption of REE would produce enough Thorium as a byproduct to power the entire planet.

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