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WalterBright
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Colonization of Venus
Mechanical carbon capture is a joke. There's no way it can scale enough to be measurable. It also requires energy - coming from where?
Trees, on the other hand, can scale, and they get their energy from the sun.
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a_t48
12 days ago
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Wind! Venus is full of it. (Making it so that your wind power can survive corrosion and the high speeds is an exercise left to the reader)
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WalterBright
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In order for a windmill to work, it has to be anchored. There's no wind if you're floating in it.
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a_t48
11 days ago
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Spitballing here, you might be able to use some sort of floating wind turbine, and trail it out on a long enough cable to catch a different windstream. There's all sorts of reasons why it's a pretty terrible idea.
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Trees, on the other hand, can scale, and they get their energy from the sun.