Create a settlement - Revision history

Michel Lamontagne at 14:18, 8 July 2021

2021-07-08T14:18:40Z

Michel Lamontagne: /* Housing, Lodging circulation and offices */

2021-07-05T20:40:38Z

Housing, Lodging circulation and offices

Michel Lamontagne: /* Atmospheric processing */

2021-07-05T18:06:34Z

Atmospheric processing

Michel Lamontagne: /* Nuclear */

2021-07-05T17:58:49Z

Nuclear

Michel Lamontagne: /* Housing, Lodging circulation and offices */

2021-07-05T17:52:38Z

Housing, Lodging circulation and offices

Michel Lamontagne: /* Facilities */

2021-07-05T17:50:35Z

Facilities

Michel Lamontagne: /* Mines */

2021-07-05T17:48:25Z

Mines

Michel Lamontagne at 17:44, 5 July 2021

2021-07-05T17:44:01Z

Michel Lamontagne at 17:38, 5 July 2021

2021-07-05T17:38:48Z

Michel Lamontagne: /* Greenhouses */

2021-07-05T17:36:12Z

Greenhouses

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 [[File:Gas storage tile.JPG|left|75x75px|alt=|frameless|link=Storage]]
 At the top of the settlement plan you find a water [[storage]] tank, that feeds a [[Water Infrastructure|water treatment]] facility.  [[Storage]] is also provides for other resources, such as gases or minerals like silica sand, iron ore and calcium carbonate.
 ===Housing, Lodging circulation and offices===
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 ===Greenhouses===
-[[File:Greenhouse tile.JPG|left|frameless|40x40px|alt=|link=Greenhouse]]<nowiki/>
+[[File:Greenhouse tile.JPG|left|frameless|40x40px|alt=|link=Greenhouse]]Four [[greenhouse]]<nowiki/>s produce food, but also do some [[atmospheric processing]].  With a total growing area of about 1400m<sup>2</sup>, extra artificial lighting and year long production at a rate of 3 to 6 kg/m<sup>2</sup>, the greenhouses could produce 4 to 8 tonnes of food per year, or up to one third of the food needed per year for the colony.  The rest of the food would come from Earth.
 ===Public spaces===
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 [[File:Large reactor tile.JPG|left|frameless|50x50px|link=Nuclear power]]
 A larger, 1 MW reactor is required to power the settlement and produce propellant if solar is not used.  Such a reactor could produce 17 000 000 kWh in two years, so more than enough to fuel a Starship and grow all the settlement's food.  The reactor needs to be combined with cooling systems.
 ===Cooling===
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 ===Atmospheric processing===
-An [[Atmospheric processing|atmospheric processing]] plant extracts CO2 and nitrogen, perhaps argon, from the Martian atmosphere.  The plant needs to process about 500 tonnes of atmosphere per year to provide propellant for a Starship.
+[[File:Atmospheric extraction tile.JPG|left|frameless|50x50px]]
 ===Spaceport===

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 ===Housing, Lodging circulation and offices===
-[[File:Housing tile.JPG|left|40x40px|link=Housing]]Illustrated here are three buried [[Inflatable habitat|inflatable habitats,]] that serve for [[housing]], [[lodging]] and [[Offices|office]] space.  They are connected by circulation corridors with multiple connection points. Area of 40 m2 per person.
+[[File:Housing tile.JPG|left|40x40px|link=Housing]]Illustrated here are three buried [[Inflatable habitat|inflatable habitats,]] that serve for [[housing]], [[lodging]] and [[Offices|office]] space.  They are connected by circulation corridors with multiple connection points. Area of 40 m2 per person.  [[Life support]] would be distributed between the habitats.
 ===Infirmary===

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 A Manufacturing area processes [[In-situ resource utilization|in situ]] materials.  One module houses minerals processing facilities.  Two modules serve for water electrolysis and Sabatier reactor to provide Methane and Oxygen propellants. A third module has a glass furnace and a small steel plant. A wastewater treatment plant takes in water from the settlement and the industrial processes and cleans it for re use.
-=== Atmospheric processing ===
+===Atmospheric processing===
-An [[Atmospheric processing|atmospheric processing]] plant extracts CO2 and nitrogen, perhaps argon, from the Martian atmosphere.  The plant needs to process
+An [[Atmospheric processing|atmospheric processing]] plant extracts CO2 and nitrogen, perhaps argon, from the Martian atmosphere.  The plant needs to process about 500 tonnes of atmosphere per year to provide propellant for a Starship.
 ===Spaceport===

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 Down to the lower right a [[Nuclear power|nuclear reactor]] provides power during the night of if a [[Dust storms|dust storm]] blocks the light for the photovoltaics.  The [[Nuclear power|Kilopower]] reactor can provide 10 kW  of power, or 240 kWh of electrical energy per day continuously for 10 years or more.  it rejects about 30 kW of heat.
 [[File:Large reactor tile.JPG|left|frameless|50x50px|link=Nuclear power]]
-A larger, 1 MW reactor is required to power the settlement and produce propellant if solar is not used.  Such a reactor could produce 17 000 000 kWh in two years, so more than enough to fuel a Starship.  The reactor needs to be combined with cooling systems.
+A larger, 1 MW reactor is required to power the settlement and produce propellant if solar is not used.  Such a reactor could produce 17 000 000 kWh in two years, so more than enough to fuel a Starship and grow all the settlement's food.  The reactor needs to be combined with cooling systems.
 ====Chemical back-up====
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 [[File:Production tile.JPG|left|frameless|50x50px]]
 A Manufacturing area processes [[In-situ resource utilization|in situ]] materials.  One module houses minerals processing facilities.  Two modules serve for water electrolysis and Sabatier reactor to provide Methane and Oxygen propellants. A third module has a glass furnace and a small steel plant. A wastewater treatment plant takes in water from the settlement and the industrial processes and cleans it for re use.
 ===Spaceport===
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 ===Mines===
 [[File:Mine tile.JPG|left|frameless|61x61px|link=Mining]]
-Water ice and minerals are mined from the martian surface.  [[Waste Infrastructure|Water infrastructures]] provide water to the settlements various needs.
+Water ice and minerals are mined from the Martian surface.  [[Waste Infrastructure|Water infrastructures]] provide water to the settlements various needs.
 [[File:Settlement render.jpg|center|thumb|800x800px|A 3D view of a settlement designed with the tile-set shown in this page.  Entirely solar powered, it has less greenhouses than the tile-set image but a lot more solar cells.  Note that the Spaceport seems dangerously close to the settlement.  Probably best to put it at the end of a long road!]]

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 ===Housing, Lodging circulation and offices===
-[[File:Housing tile.JPG|left|40x40px|link=Housing]]Illustrated here are three buried [[Inflatable habitat|inflatable habitats,]] that serve for [[housing]], [[lodging]] and [[Offices|office]] space.  They are connected by circulation corridors with multiple connection points.
+[[File:Housing tile.JPG|left|40x40px|link=Housing]]Illustrated here are three buried [[Inflatable habitat|inflatable habitats,]] that serve for [[housing]], [[lodging]] and [[Offices|office]] space.  They are connected by circulation corridors with multiple connection points. Area of 40 m2 per person.
 ===Infirmary===
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 ===Public spaces===
-[[File:Dome tile.jpg|frameless|50x50px|link=Public services]]A large [[dome]] 26m in diameter serves as a public space as do all the connecting/circulation nodes between the modules.
+[[File:Dome tile.jpg|frameless|50x50px|link=Public services]]A large [[dome]], 26m in diameter, serves as a public space as do all the connecting/circulation nodes between the modules.
 ===Power===
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 ====Nuclear====
 [[File:Reactor tile.JPG|left|frameless|25x25px|link=Nuclear power]]
-Down to the lower right a [[Nuclear power|nuclear reactor]] provides power during the night of if a [[Dust storms|dust storm]] blocks the light for the photovoltaics.  The Kilopower reactor can provide 10 kW  of power, or 240 kWh of electrical energy per day continuously for 10 years or more.  it rejects about 30 kW of heat.
+Down to the lower right a [[Nuclear power|nuclear reactor]] provides power during the night of if a [[Dust storms|dust storm]] blocks the light for the photovoltaics.  The [[Nuclear power|Kilopower]] reactor can provide 10 kW  of power, or 240 kWh of electrical energy per day continuously for 10 years or more.  it rejects about 30 kW of heat.
 [[File:Large reactor tile.JPG|left|frameless|50x50px|link=Nuclear power]]
 A larger, 1 MW reactor is required to power the settlement and produce propellant if solar is not used.  Such a reactor could produce 17 000 000 kWh in two years, so more than enough to fuel a Starship.  The reactor needs to be combined with cooling systems.

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 [[Category:Education‎]]
 [[Category:Mars Human Settlement]]
-This page shows a typical early [[settlement]] for about 24 people and includes links to Marspedia pages about the various [[settlement facilities]] and their characteristics.  If you want to design your own Mars facility, this is a good place to start!  The tiles used to build this image of a settlement measure 9m x 9m and are mostly to scale.
+This page shows a typical early [[settlement]] for about 24 people and includes links to Marspedia pages about the various [[settlement facilities]] and their characteristics.  If you want to design your own Mars facility, this is a good place to start!  The tiles used to build this image of a settlement measure 9m x 9m and are mostly to scale.  The design parameters for the settlement are in the table at the bottom of the page.
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 |Greenhouses
 |325
-|600 12 h/day
+|600
 |Provided by light
-|Food provided from Earth reduces required greenhouses.  Grow rooms are an alternative
+|Food from Earth reduces greenhouse areas.  Grow rooms are an alternative. On 12h per day.
 |-
 |Habitat power
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 Notes:
-# Food production is approximative and might be reduced using natural lighting and very efficient crop growth.
+#Food production is approximative and might be reduced using natural lighting and very efficient crop growth.
-# One Starship requires xx tonnes of oxygen and xx tonnes of Methane
+#One Starship requires 940 tonnes of oxygen and 260 tonnes of Methane

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-|One Starship requires 9 000 000 kWh of energy
+|One Starship refueling requires 9 000 000 kWh of energy or 4 500 000 kWh per year.
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 |Food production
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-|One person requires 365 kWh per year
+|One person requires 365 000 kWh of energy per year.
 |}