/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15886945
Don't see why not. We done something like that with the strategic oil reserve, and nasa has plenty experience with epoxying shuttle titles onto the shuttle.

You would create a room in the sides of a tunnel, then epoxy the fuck out of the door.

>>12765606
This is what underground methane storage tanks could be like.

>>12696508
Here's the micro reactor technology that I'm talking about. Westinghouse would be very interested in sending some reactors because it would make the public do a 180 toward nuclear energy.

https://www.westinghousenuclear.com/new-plants/evinci-micro-reactor

The most commonly asked question on the youtube video is "Can we send these to mars?"

Tunnels are the way forward because instead of shipping material in you remove it. This almost instantly starts up the economy because colonist would pay for an apartment to be built before they even depart.


An apartment/condo on Mars certainly is cheaper than an equivalent insize in NYC.

One of the biggest concerns if the mental health of being crammed inside a metal tube for 30 years with quarters more cramp than a submarine. With tunnels you build apartments within the walls of the tunnel. Boom, instant privacy. With apartments you could seal up people incase of disease or environmental issues.

These underground housing makes for great public housing as well such as for new arrivals if we transition to above ground structures generations later.


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Besides housing tunnels would be important for industrial reasons.

Instead of shipping in water tanks, you remove stone & seal up water basins/tranks.
That way you could store millions of gallons if you built the tanks & treatment plants in the right location.

You could also pump methane into underground storage tanks the way the strategic helium & oil reserves are done. You could also shelter methane production out of the elements with tunnels.

We could have a surplus built up so a rocket would top up orbiting fuel depots, and for missions such as to martian moons.
With tunnels you're not restricted by the underground room volume like you would with above ground structure.


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