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"People ask me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research. I just enjoy reading the stuff, and some of it sticks in my mind and fits into the stories."
- Frederik Pohl
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| Oxygen Fountain | ||
| A small factory for making oxygen on the Martian surface. |
| Making oxygen is the trick. Cracking water - hydrolysis - is comparatively easy; CO2 and oxidized dust take more energy and time. That's why we need fountains. Fountains are big, often the size of a semi cab... They plop down on the Red and if the dust is deep enough - if they're not on impenetrable hardpan - they burrow in and almost immediately pop out solar collectors and extraction vanes and whirl the vanes to collect moisture from the air. |
| Technovelgy from War Dogs,
by Greg Bear. Published by Orbit in 2014 Additional resources -
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Compare to vaporators from Star Wars (1976) by George Lucas.
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