Try this guy's videos on Colonizing/terraforming the moon/mars he discuses a lot of stuff like this.

Ya this definitely won't be approved unless its launched/manufactured from the moon or something.

Id say the maintenance would even out considering the sheer amount of turbines you would have to build to make up for the weak wind.

This is all long term stuff anyway but you are going to need to ship in everything, a small nuclear reactor with water and uranium is a lot smaller then like 30 turbines

The first mars colony is going to be almost entirely dependent on the earth (moon maybe?) for some time till manufacturing gets up and running, better to go for density because you aren't building shit unless robots get way better.

lets be honest the martins are going to live like moles anyway they will be fine.

lots of wind though right? its not like mars is famous for its low atmosphere or anything, I'm not saying its easy I'm saying its easier

And if you must live on the surface you can make an artificial magnetosphere with satellites

The reason nuclear needs so much monitoring is the worry of another Chernobyl that's not a problem on mars because its already far worse all the time.

Also maintenance? last I checked wind needs that to.

Why not just use nuclear? you don't need to worry about fallout in a radioactive wasteland.