Will windmill electric generators work on Mars?
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Answer by rhsaunders
Not very well -- the atmosphere is not dense enough.
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no
not enough air pressure to be effective
Properly designed they could. The atmosphere is pretty thin, but Mars has some very strong winds.
Solar panels might be a little more effective, but Mars gets nowhere near the concentration of sunlight the Earth does.
They will if there is sufficient wind. On other planets it depends on it’s climate and atmosphere conditions.
according to the probes sent there Mars does have an atmosphere including wind so they should work there. The atmosphere can’t support our life form with out artificial means.
Mars does have a thin atmosphere, making it hard for wind mills to work. But, as stated earlier, mars does have very high winds. Keep in mind that CO2 freezes out of the atmosphere in the winter, though, and will make it even less dense.
no. Atmospheric pressure on Mars is less that 1/100th of that on Earth, i.e. the air there is much too thin for windmill electric generators.
But solar photovoltaic cells would work just fine.
Nope. Air pressure there on the ground is about 1/200th of ours at ground level. So the atmosphere is too thin to be much use for wind power. Being further from the Sun, photovoltaic panels will be less useful there than on Earth. Mars colonies will probably have to rely on nuclear power.
Not unless you put massive scoops on the rotor blades, because the atmosphere of Mars is pretty thin.
Yes, but the wind turbines would have to be engineered for the thin atmosphere. The turbines that we use here on the earth would have too much static inertia for the Matian winds to move them.