Presumably to get back, the tanker would need to follow them out to Mars?
Got a feeling it's never going to happen, but it's nice to dream. Presumably there's a shit-ton of minerals and that on Mars worth carting home. Not that it matters, exploration for it's own sake is a great thing, and would be something positive to see in the news. Unless it all goes horribly wrong.
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Greenbat, Tue 27 Sep 2016, 23:51,
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Nope
The plan is to synthesise fuel when at Mars from water in the sub-surface ice and the CO2 in the atmosphere.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 28 Sep 2016, 0:07,
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If it's possible to do that with limited resources on mars why are we not doing that here?
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 28 Sep 2016, 5:58,
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Er... We are?
Or do you think rocket fuel magically rains down and is scooped up in buckets?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 28 Sep 2016, 7:19,
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Well I men't on a mass scale for energy use.
If you can do that on mars with very limited resources compared to earth why not here for power production?
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 28 Sep 2016, 8:21,
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Because you have to pump energy in to make the fuel
The energy source on Mars is going to be solar panels (they covered that in the talk) or potentially if there's the will for it a nuclear source.
I'll leave you to figure out the source of the energy for the process on Earth.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 28 Sep 2016, 10:22,
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