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Project Nomad: Mobile Skyscrapers Could Terraform Mars for Human Colonization
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Project Nomad, which has been entered into the Evolo 2013 Skyscraper Competition, was the brainchild of Antonio Ares Sainz, Joaquin Rodriguez Nuñez and Konstantino Tousidonis Rial of Spain. It is their response to “the global increase in population, its concentration in cities, and the development of emerging countries leading to a big increase in energy need.”
“The Earth has undergone dramatic climatic changes, which have been linked, by a large consensus, to greenhouse gases (GHG). The concentration of GHG in the atmosphere directly affects the global temperature, with potentially global, dramatic consequences. Without any doubt, it is indispensable to define an objective of maximum emissions, in order to limit problems in the future in the Earth [sic].”
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Various public and private space companies are currently planning missions to Mars, but Project Nomad is going one step further. The plan is to build mobile skyscrapers that would move about the planet’s surface using Martian minerals to create complex
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Project Nomad is the brainchild of Antonio Ares Sainz, Joaquin Rodriguez Nuñez and Konstantino Tousidonis Rial of Spain.
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It is their response to “the global increase in population, its concentration in cities, and the development of emerging countries leading to a big increase in energy need.”
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The project addresses climatic changes linked to greenhouse gases
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Essentially this design would make Mars inhabitable for humans
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Whilst a somewhat unrealistic design brief, the project does highlight the importance of combatting climate change
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This diagram further illustrates how the structure would alter the chemistry of Mars in order to make it more human-friendly
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