Can wind power run heavy weapon factories on Mars?
One thing that has always bothered me in robot-controlled AI stories is that there is always the assumption that the AI would choose to fight a conflict against humans on Earth, where humans dominate, rather than a more favorable ground (for them).
Right now, there are already machines "living" in space and on Mars, so I think it would make much more sense for an AI to start building weapons (and even an army) outside Earth, where it can't be stopped easily, and then come back to kick our asses.
It would be easy to fool humans into shipping the basic materials to, let's say, Mars for terraforming purposes and then secretly start building weapon factories there.
The main issue I have is the amount of energy required to have such factories keep going. Given Mars atmospheric conditions, I think it would make sense to use wind as primary energy source, however I'm unsure how many wind farms you would need to keep dozens of heavy weapon factories going.
Do you think it's possible to have heavy weapon factories run purely based on Mars wind power? (meaning, can those farms generate enough power?)
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