As space.com says: "The explosions would vaporize a fair chunk of Mars' ice caps, liberating enough water vapor and carbon dioxideboth potent greenhouse gasesto warm up the planet substantially, the idea goes." .space.com/elon-musk-nuke-mars-terraforming.html
It's been projected that it would take more than 10,000 nuclear bombs to carry out the Musk plan.
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The nuclear bomb explosions would also would render Mars radioactive.
The nuclear bombs would be carried to Mars on the fleet of 1,000 Starships that Musk wants to buildlike the one that blew up this week.
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Musk's nuclear bomb of choice: hydrogen bombs.
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Beyond the this completely insane plan to ruin Mars, as on Earth, solar energy can provide all the power needed for would-be settlements on Mars and the Moon.
Said the headline in Universe Today this month, "Solar Power is Best for Mars Colonies." The extensive article states how "a NASA-sponsored MIT think-tank has weighed up the future energy needs of a manned settlement on Mars and arrived at an interesting conclusion"solar arrays might function just as well, if not better, than the nuclear options."
There have been studies and articles through the years on using solar energy on Mars and the Moon.
This includes a 2016 Discover magazine piece, "How to Harvest Terawatts of Solar Power on the Moon," which spoke of the Japanese corporation, Shimizu, "gearing up to develop solar power on the moon." The "photovoltaic cells themselves could be tissue thin, since the moon has no weather or air," said the article, "and half of the moon is in sunlight at any one time." A huge amount of solar power energy could be generated on the Moon that could be beamed back to Earth, related the article. click here
As to the use of nuclear power for propulsion in space, I've written many pieces about the solar alternative: solar sails.
There was a comprehensive story in New Scientist in October on this, "The new age of sail," it was headlined. The subhead: "We are on the cusp of a new type of space travel that can take s to places no rocket could ever visit."
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