I don't say his calculations/estimations are wrong, but Mars not having magnetic field always seemed to me a no go for terraforming.
Even if at the end of the blog post, there is a comment linking an article on Nasa thinking of putting a magnet on L1 of Mars to protect it from solar winds : https://phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmo..., I don't buy it.
I don't say his calculations/estimations are wrong, but Mars not having magnetic field always seemed to me a no go for terraforming.
Even if at the end of the blog post, there is a comment linking an article on Nasa thinking of putting a magnet on L1 of Mars to protect it from solar winds : https://phys.org/news/2017-03-nasa-magnetic-shield-mars-atmo..., I don't buy it.