Elon Musk is boring a tunnel to skirt gridlock

Re:Elon Musk is boring a tunnel to skirt gridlock by wolfram74 on Thursday February 16, 2017 @08:58AM (#13659871)

Note though that solar panels are half as effective on mars given it's distance to the sun, nuclear is even more important on Mars than on Earth.

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Re:Elon Musk is boring a tunnel to skirt gridlock by benchaney on Thursday February 16, 2017 @09:37AM (#13660126)

True, but there is a ton of open space on mars. They can just cover more area to make up for it. Plus the lack of real weather would make the solar panels more consistent.

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Re:Elon Musk is boring a tunnel to skirt gridlock by pitt1980 on Thursday February 16, 2017 @09:09AM (#13659939)

is that true? how much effectiveness are you gaining with the thinner atmosphere?

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Re:Elon Musk is boring a tunnel to skirt gridlock by hxegon on Thursday February 16, 2017 @09:28AM (#13660060)

Definitely not as much as you are losing to the inverse square law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-square_law#Light_and_o...

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Re:Elon Musk is boring a tunnel to skirt gridlock by Symmetry on Thursday February 16, 2017 @09:32AM (#13660083)

It's about 40% of Earth's surface before accounting for the thinner atmosphere and about 60% after.

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