[Spaceships] Million Merchant Marathon

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by scc

So I'm using Venus because I'm trying to terraform all three, Venus has too much atmosphere while the Moon and Mars have too little, either way I'm going to be moving that stuff off of Venus, might as well use to for these other terraforming projects as well.

s.

It's obvious that nitrogen is desirable as an atmospheric dilutant anywhere they don't have it but what does isolating it on Venus and then getting rid of it have to do with the atmosphere of Venus? That's 95% carbon dioxide.

I've seen proposals that capture the carbon and turn it into many many miles tall cooling towers of diamonoid (pumping heat from the lower atmosphere to the upper where it is more easily gotten rid of).

You're probably going to need the nitrogen on Venus to make bio-mass when it cools enough.

By contrast the moons of Neptune are very unlikely to e terraformed and you can mine the solid nitrogen with cryogenic nanites or aomething like that.