After reading Robert Zubrin’s The New World on Mars, I found several aspects of the book compelling: Energy infrastructure and the architecture of a Martian city. The energy architecture (most notably molten salt reactors) will be pioneered here on Earth and lead to a new process-heat based industrial revolution. This has brought about many interesting ideas which I will describe in a future article, and are the basis for a future project I aim to build one day: Natana Energy Systems. The sec...

After reading Robert Zubrin’s The New World on Mars, I found several aspects of the book compelling: Energy infrastructure and the architecture of a Martian city. The energy architecture (most notably molten salt reactors) will be pioneered here on Earth and lead to a new process-heat based industrial revolution. This has brought about many interesting ideas which I will describe in a future article, and are the basis for a future project I aim to build one day: Natana Energy Systems. The sec...

We wanted to write about the most compelling hardware projects possible today and explore their implications for life here on Earth, and on other planets. In particular how new energy systems like nuclear thermal process heat will be used to take civilization into a new age. The prescient question of today is why should civilization make investments into space exploration? There are many philosophical explanations, yet the most profound is that it simply makes financial sense to do so. Invent...

We wanted to write about the most compelling hardware projects possible today and explore their implications for life here on Earth, and on other planets. In particular how new energy systems like nuclear thermal process heat will be used to take civilization into a new age. The prescient question of today is why should civilization make investments into space exploration? There are many philosophical explanations, yet the most profound is that it simply makes financial sense to do so. Invent...

We recently wrote about the anatomy of a martian rocket fuel depot based on current best principles and research. Developing nuclear powered in-situ resource manufacturing will have profound implications for earth, none the least strategic. It is now possible to manufacture aviation fuel from seawater and a nuclear reactor alone. Using Nuclear reactors for chemical process heat, is far more efficient and can likely be more profitable that using a nuclear reactor for electrical energy (As they...

We recently wrote about the anatomy of a martian rocket fuel depot based on current best principles and research. Developing nuclear powered in-situ resource manufacturing will have profound implications for earth, none the least strategic. It is now possible to manufacture aviation fuel from seawater and a nuclear reactor alone. Using Nuclear reactors for chemical process heat, is far more efficient and can likely be more profitable that using a nuclear reactor for electrical energy (As they...