On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Dr John Stockton wrote:
|The Earth maintains ~300K receiving 2e17 W from the Sun. If the earth
|generates and uses 100 * 2e22 W locally, that's 1E7 times as much,
|raising the Earth to ~17000K on a T^4 basis.
|
|The Earth should use Solar power, not compete with it.

Hm. But don't solar panels have a way of burning out with time?

What is needed, is a furnace that mass-produces solar cells, and
launches them into orbit around Mars. At the least, refineries for
that very purpose have to be built on the Moon before we try to do
that thing on Mars.

If we measure success by counting out kilotons of aluminum forged from
the surface of the Moon, we surely have a very long way to go at this
point, let alone speculate about the eventual terraforming of Mars.