Warming Mars...

Adam — 12/13/2004 2:31:18 PM (archived)

Hi All

To warm Mars so its CO2 outgases needs something more effective than CO2 for the initial greenhouse - flurocarbons are the current front runners. Here's a new article from the Journal of Geophysical Research...

Marinova, Margarita; McKay, Christopher; Hashimoto, Hirofumi, â€” November 2004
Radiative-convective model of warming Mars with artificial greenhouse gases
(2004JE002306)
PDF [0.3 MB]

...found temporarily here.

About 0.2 Pa is needed ~ 8 gigatons of the right mix. To make that in 50 years needs an output of ~ 5 tons/second. Not gobsmackingly huge.

Needs to be topped-up by ~ 1% per annum due to photolysis.

Adam

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Warming Mars... - Adam - 12/13/2004 2:31:18 PM
- Greenhouse Fluids, crazy speculation - Simon - 12/16/2004 2:54:24 AM
- 5 tons/sec. over time is probably higher than the industrial capacity of earth right now. (n/t) - ebnelson - 12/14/2004 3:34:47 PM
- 5 tons per second is a huge amount - Philip Simon - 12/14/2004 1:37:38 AM
  - Still huge, but not quite that huge - dtb - 12/14/2004 1:58:39 AM
    - Yeah, I'm not against it! - Philip - 12/15/2004 4:51:16 AM
      - Ah... I beg to differ - Adam - 12/19/2004 10:56:51 PM
    - Remember the huge terraforming machines in "Aliens"? - ebnelson - 12/14/2004 3:37:17 PM

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