>>13408260>Implying you wouldn't ship thousands to industrialize MarsAt that point you could just make solar panels and batteries on Mars. Once it starts to be industrialized it favors solar more, not less. Silicon and iron are extremely common. They may have to swap to a different battery chemistry if lithium is hard to get but phosphate is common so otherwise they could do LFP.
>You'd need a Starship full of batteries to do thatNo, Artemis is going to the lunar south pole where most locations have a short lunar night so a small battery works. It's not just for water and power either, but also the temperature is much more stable there. It's outside your argument but if they go elsewhere at 50 kW they'd need about 16,800 kWh or 16.8 mWh which would be about five Tesla Mega packs, but it would be much cheaper that whatever nuclear meme you're thinking of.
Also, fuck Earth and fuck the Moon.
