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Thanks haljackey. I Figured out that I needed to extend the outer lanes past the inner lanes earlier today, but I thought I might have still been doing something incorrectly. After your post, though, I think maybe I have everything right. It seems simple enough... I guess the only downside is that you have to know exactly how long your inner lanes will be and then you cannot extend them. I might be wrong about that, but that is where I am getting stuck. Thanks for all the help!

Maybe someone can help me here. It is quite possible that I am idiot, but I cannot get the RHW mod to allow me to make a 4 tile collector system as demonstrated in the first post of this thread. I tried to follow the directions exactly, but to no avail. What happens is that when I get to step 6 and try to extend the inner lanes past the outer lanes, the inner lanes flip and become two parallel and separate networks. I suspect this is a quick fix, so can anyone help me out? Thanks!

Looks good to me. it is a bit griddy, but that doesn't bother me as long as you have some greenery, which you do. The one issue I have is all those hospitals. You might consider looking at the giant consolidated hospital on stex to replace those.

OK, I haven't contributed anything to this project, but being that I am a physicist maybe I can help a bit. First, it is impossible to fuse atoms to create anything with a higher atomic number than Iron (53 I believe) and extract energy. Creating these elements actually requires energy, snd a whole lot of it. That is why they can generally only be created in novas. You can basically forget creating these elements unless you want to assume some currently unavailable futuristic technology. Regardless of what has been said, you *can* use fusion to create light elements like carbon and nitrogen. Such fusion occurs in the center of the sun, so if you can assume that we are capable of possessing technology that allows us to perform similar processes then this is feasible. Second, someone said that fusing two hydrogen atoms released enough energy to power the eastcoats for a decade and produced some huge explosion. This is absolutely not true. Controlled fusion does not produce an explosion; that only happens in uncontrolled fusion such as an H-bomb. Also, fusing two hydrogen atoms does produce nearly enough energy to power the east coast for a decade. I could work out exactly how much energy it does produce, but suffice to say that you need a ton of hydrogen to produce that kind of power. Third, AFAIK there really isn't an overabundance of hydrogen on Mars, so if you really wanna be realistic there isn't really any way to create light elements, power cities, etc etc using only the alotted H supply on Mars. You may consider using electrolysis to electrolyze some of the ice from the polar ice caps, but if you go that route there should probably be some kind of electrolysis or hydrogen production building. Given all of these factors, the most likely candidate for energy would have to be solar based (if you want toremain in the confinces of present day technology). Thus microwave would probably be the bests bet. However, don't forget that we can not get to mars yet and probably won't for some time. New tech will have developed by that time, and we certainly need to be much more advance before we can consider terraforming teh planet in teh way being proposed here. Considering this, I think that we shoudl allow for the creation of new technology and have some futuristic buildings that are suggestive of what we may one day be able to do. For instance, a matter-antimatter power plant is not at all unreasonable. This type of energy production is already being considered for future rocket propulsion systems. Another idea, though a much greater stretch, is a straight matter to energy converter. Since matter is essentially concentrated energy, you could assume that we may one day have teh technology to convert matter directly to energy. Remember Einstein... E=mc^2... that's a ton of energy. Hopefully this is helpful. Keep up teh good work fellas.