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On that vein I had the idea of engineering floating plants to live in the nice altitude of venuses atmosphere. Oxygen plants produce would actually be a liftin
by mrfusion 5y ago
On that vein I had the idea of engineering floating plants to live in the nice altitude of venuses atmosphere.
Oxygen plants produce would actually be a lifting gas on Venus so pretty doable. Plenty of sunlight and co2 too.
But I hit a wall with the Mack of water in the atmosphere.
- miki_tyler 5y agoI am obsessed with Venus and I have thought a lot about acidophilic prairies floating on the Venus atmosphere. They would be indistinguishable from land if you are standing on top of them, you can build your Hobbit house there. It is an amazing concept!
- mrfusion 5y agoWow I love that idea. So the plants would absorb the acid in the atmosphere? I guess you’d just need to provide your own water?
- miki_tyler 5y agoSorry about the late reply. Sometimes it is hard to figure out what is going on in HN. A while ago I posted about it in Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ColonizeVenus/comments/ku55zg/floating_prairies_in_the_venus_atmosphere/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ColonizeVenus/comments/ku55zg/float...
- ericbarrett 5y agoYou will have to deal with the insane thermal flux too. Even where the atmosphere is Earth-like in temperature, you will have a very hot radiator below you and frozen space above. (If you were in low Venus orbit, and could "stick your head out" of the spacecraft, Venus would feel as warm on your face as the noon sun on Earth. On the night side. That's how hot the planet is.) So for anything larger than algae, even in the convective atmosphere, you're going to have a side that's burning hot and a side that's freezing.
- jamiek88 5y ago>a side that's burning hot and a side that's freezing. Great for power generation though!