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Could this work on Venus?
by mrfusion 5y ago
Could this work on Venus?
- ksd482 5y agoPutting the practicality of constructing such a facility on Venus aside, I presume geology of Venus' crust would be a big factor here. Another important factor would be the chemistry needed to separate CO2 from Venus' atmosphere. It may or may not be different from that required for Earth's atmosphere.
- ProjectArcturis 5y agoNo. Even if you built it floating in the clouds where the temperature and pressure aren't so bad, and powered it with a nuclear reactor, where would you put the captured carbon?
- emkoemko 5y agocan't you split it into oxygen and carbon? then just dump the carbon? that way you have a supply of oxygen and over time couldn't you grow plants? can you then also get the hydrogen out of sulfuric acid and combine the hydrogen and oxygen to make water? use some of the hydrogen to run a nuclear fusion reactor? and if you did this on large scale and time span wouldn't the pressure start to lower? or is that just no possible?
- iSnow 5y agoChemically, it is very possible, but terraforming a whole planet takes an impossible amount of resources and man-hours. Who would pay for this and why?
- magicalhippo 5y agoThat's step 2, don't worry about that. Focus on step 3, the profit!
- socialdemocrat 5y agoYou don’t need this on Venus, as getting CO2 from the atmosphere is trivial. They is pretty much the only thing the atmosphere is made of there. But why would you want to get rid of CO2 on Venus? It has tons of benefits. It gives good lift ability for airships so you can stay far above then hot surface. Also no need to worry about Hindenburg disasters as stuff will not burn in CO2 atmosphere.
- thinkcontext 5y agoHow To Terraform Venus (Quickly) - Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WO-z-QuWI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-WO-z-QuWI