If we get our way and really put humans on Mars in the coming decades, they’re going to need power. NASA has had concrete plants to send people to the Red Planet since 2010—with target dates in the 2030s, while Elon Musk thinks SpaceX can make it to Mars faster. But no matter who gets there first, the power problem remains.

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