The Carbon Forge System: Exothermic Lantern Drones and Carbon Cassettes for Closed-Loop Martian Atmosphere and Materials Production
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| contents | <p>This work presents the Carbon Forge System, an integrated atmospheric-conversion and materials-production architecture designed to support long-duration human habitation on Mars. The system is built around three core technologies: large-scale Carbon Forge reactors, modular Carbon Cassettes, and autonomous Exothermic Lantern Drones.</p> <p>In the foundational robotic phase, Carbon Forge reactors are deployed and operated prior to human arrival. These reactors continuously convert Martian CO₂ into pressurized oxygen for later use and into solid or gaseous carbon feedstocks. The carbon products are densified into standardized Carbon Cassettes, forming a long-term reserve for carbon nanotube, graphene, and composite-material manufacturing. This pre-deployment phase establishes validated oxygen-production capacity, structural-material inventory, and system reliability under real Martian conditions.</p> <p>After habitation begins, Exothermic Lantern Drones provide distributed, fine-grained atmospheric processing within enclosed environments. Each drone contains a miniature thermogenic CO₂-conversion cell that produces oxygen while collecting carbon residues, ensuring localized air regulation and supplementing centralized reactors. The collected carbon feeds back into the Carbon Cassette cycle, closing the atmospheric and materials loop.</p> <p>Together, these technologies create a resilient, scalable closed-loop ecosystem capable of supporting both life support and advanced materials fabrication using only Martian CO₂ as the primary feedstock. The Carbon Forge System demonstrates how autonomous pre-deployment, modular carbon storage, and distributed atmospheric processing can form the backbone of a sustainable Martian settlement.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | The Carbon Forge System: Exothermic Lantern Drones and Carbon Cassettes for Closed-Loop Martian Atmosphere and Materials Production DUDLEY, Shane Gordon Glenn Carbon capture engineering <p>This work presents the Carbon Forge System, an integrated atmospheric-conversion and materials-production architecture designed to support long-duration human habitation on Mars. The system is built around three core technologies: large-scale Carbon Forge reactors, modular Carbon Cassettes, and autonomous Exothermic Lantern Drones.</p> <p>In the foundational robotic phase, Carbon Forge reactors are deployed and operated prior to human arrival. These reactors continuously convert Martian CO₂ into pressurized oxygen for later use and into solid or gaseous carbon feedstocks. The carbon products are densified into standardized Carbon Cassettes, forming a long-term reserve for carbon nanotube, graphene, and composite-material manufacturing. This pre-deployment phase establishes validated oxygen-production capacity, structural-material inventory, and system reliability under real Martian conditions.</p> <p>After habitation begins, Exothermic Lantern Drones provide distributed, fine-grained atmospheric processing within enclosed environments. Each drone contains a miniature thermogenic CO₂-conversion cell that produces oxygen while collecting carbon residues, ensuring localized air regulation and supplementing centralized reactors. The collected carbon feeds back into the Carbon Cassette cycle, closing the atmospheric and materials loop.</p> <p>Together, these technologies create a resilient, scalable closed-loop ecosystem capable of supporting both life support and advanced materials fabrication using only Martian CO₂ as the primary feedstock. The Carbon Forge System demonstrates how autonomous pre-deployment, modular carbon storage, and distributed atmospheric processing can form the backbone of a sustainable Martian settlement.</p> |
| title | The Carbon Forge System: Exothermic Lantern Drones and Carbon Cassettes for Closed-Loop Martian Atmosphere and Materials Production |
| topic | Carbon capture engineering |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17861145 |