What's the total cost of the fuel used by the combined cycle plant during the first 10 years? 15 years? 20 years?

But the demand is typically down significantly 6 hours after sundown.

"Commerce", "Necessary and Proper", and "Spending" clauses.

If you ignore the catastrophic earthquake, tsunami, explosions and fire(s), you might have a point.

This is going to be horribly inefficient and eat up your camping fuel supply. Just stick one of the numerous available solar panel kits on your backpack...

turbine small enough and sturdy enough for camping use, and light enough to spin under low pressures you could generate would be at least 10x your price estimate. The VR circuit (DC-DC) alone would eat your $5 budget.

I think you'll find that the dissolved oxygen is only there because there's an abundance of oxygen in the atmosphere here on Earth. On Mars, there is no (0%) oxygen content in the atmosphere (which is only 0.01% as dense as on Earth anyway); so, there would be ZERO oxygen dissolved in the water on Mars.

Are they paying Oracle for support? Or are they just using MySQL in their server farm, supporting it with internal resources?

The purchased the interface for the docking datalink. Apparently the values being returned did not match the expected format. Boils down to testing, essentially.

You can't reuse the plant. You might be able to reuse the site and existing support infrastructure for CANDU. Commercial thorium reactors do not exist and the research reactors have not proven (yet) it is a commercially viable option.

I hate feeding trolls; but, the Fukushima reactors are an American design. They were a 2nd generation GE BWR plant design using a 1st generation containment design from the early 1960's, which TEPCO, Toshiba and Hitachi continued to copy. They also appear to have not incorporated any of the safety updates implemented in U.S. plants of the same design. There are quite a few plants, in the U.S., still operating, that are of similar design.

Highest ore concentration is 17%. More typical ore concentrations are on the order of 0.1% to 0.4%

The OP indicated "such a pandemic will kill 2 percent of the infected population, or about 2 million people" They're making the clear assumption as to the number infected. That's why I mentioned it. .

I knew about those. The point is to get people to think about preparation. It's not a case of if but when...

That 2-4 weeks applies to everyone, not the obese. Almost anyone who is physically fit should be able to go for 2 weeks without food. they will be very unhappy; but, they will be alive.