Model for Hydrogen Farmer

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Design and create a model of a Hydrogen Farmer of one of the big energy companies in the universe of Orxonox.

You are free in your design choice and you may incorporate following ideas and suggestions as it may fit you.

The purpose of the Hydrogen Farmer is as the name suggests the farming of hydrogen. Big energy companies suck away parts of Jupiter's atmosphere, which contains mostly of hydrogen. Hydrogen is the most used fuel for the fusion reactors of future spaceships.

The Hydrogen Farmer needs a docking bay for gas transporters. Those ships bring fuel to the farmer and receive the raw gas from the atmosphere, which they will bring back to the refineries. As those transporters are quite huge, the docking place can be located outside. We also only need a minimum of 2 transporters that can dock the farmer at one time. Smaller ships should still be able to dock or land on/in the farmer regardless of gas transporters.

Since the Hydrogen Farmer flies in small orbit around Jupiter it has to withstand a lot of gravitational forces. I therefore suggest a bulky design that has resemblance with arch dams, used for artificial lakes on Earth, to withstand those forces. That also means that docking bays and windows and antennas should be located away from the planet, at the top side of the farmer.

The "farming" part is done, by a artificial gravitational field that nullifies Jupiter's gravitational field locally. Strong radiation, similar to that of solar winds are used to further stir up the atmosphere beneath the farmer. For the design this simply means that there has to be some openings and stuff that allows for this technology and the gathering of the sucked up gas.

For questions and clarifications, please ask me (reporter of ticket @orxonox.net)

[landauf]

I think there is such a thing now in our levels.