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The "Extravagant" Elon Musk Has An Unimaginable Project: Taking Advantage Of This Seemingly Useless Gas For A Great Purpose

In the event of appearing at the front page of TIME, Elon Musk announced an interesting project that solves multiple problems at once.
On his personal Twitter account, Elon Musk curiously tweeted:
"SpaceX is starting a program to take CO2 out of atmosphere & turn it into rocket fuel. Please join if interested."

Source: Twitter

And with a bold invitation to potential investors, Musk immediately added an additional tweet:
"Will also be important for Mars."
SpaceX is Elon Musk’s company that builds and provides rocket transportation services. Using reusable rocket technology, SpaceX saves a lot of money, and immediately turns into a prestigious destination for expensive space transportation missions. SpaceX's ambitions, which are also those of Elon Musk, don't stop there.
Musk has repeatedly mentioned his ambition to build a lunar outpost, and even colonize Mars in the future. Continuously improving its space travel technology, SpaceX outlines part of the lifelong project of mankind. Musk's latest tweet shows an attempt to realize big ambitions.

Source: The Mars Society

By extracting CO2 from the atmosphere and turning it into rocket fuel, SpaceX can work with plants to reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, and at the same time make their own rocket fuel for travel purposes.
Many people voiced that the act of launching a combustion engine spaceship would again release greenhouse gases into the environment. But given that we can't yet conduct interstellar travel with warp engines, rockets would still be the optimal choice.
So along with the rocket landing ground and colonies on Mars, Elon Musk also wants to build a rocket fuel factory using CO2 in the atmosphere.

Source: Youtube

Thanks to NASA's Curiosity robot, we know that the 5 gases that make up the largest proportion in the Martian atmosphere include carbon dioxide (CO2, accounting for 95.9%), argon (Ar, accounting for 2%), nitrogen (N2, accounting for 1). .9%), oxygen (O2, 0.14%) and carbon monoxide (CO, 0.06%). Large reserves of CO2 will provide a rocket fuel factory, hypothetically, an abundant amount of raw material.
Before we dream big, let's wait and see what the system looks like. One who knows Musk can anticipate that he will certainly update the first images on Twitter.
H/T: CNBC
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