During the broadcast from the Mars colony, Keith would note every single thing and diagram layouts as they were demonstrated. The greenhouse plantation was expanding rapidly as the scientist were producing fertilizer from ammonium nitrate and human byproducts, and harvesting a few edible plants and trees. With the few successful botanical experiments, the scientists were given an okay to push forward with expanding another bunker, which were being manufactured by an automated factory. Another feature coming to fruition was the photovoltaic farms. An enormous layout what looked liked metallic flowers were laid out underneath a protective glasssteel dome, connected partly to monolithic capacitors and lining back to the colony. While these didn't provide a high degree of energy, the cheapness, size and ease of manufacturing of them would be temporary solutions with the abundance of silicon located in Mars' soil. An estimate of a single dome could power at least two hundred people for one day, with capacitors conserving energy for two. Finally, the big announcement was the generation of massive indoor type of lake. It was massive on a relative scale; more like an Earth pond that was going to be housed in an extremely controlled environment where melted water vapor from the polar caps were being partly siphoned to the oxygen conversion units and partly now to this through the water purification facility. On the upcoming shipments, green algae and other lichen were going to be imported along with various species of fish.
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