200 years...

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200 years...

Adam — 11/5/2003 2:20:17 AM (archived)

Hi All

The collector area works out at ~ 21800 km in radius @ 100% efficiency over 200 years. And only twice as wide for a mere ~ 25% efficiency. But I would expect the main power source to be the energy gained from the incoming hydrogen from Uranus - enough to export all the excess carbon to anywhere in Sol Space.

Nanotube CylCits, anyone?

Adam

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Venus colonisation... - Adam - 11/2/2003 1:09:17 PM
- re: Venus colonisation... - Robert E. Bleier - 11/4/2003 11:23:15 AM
  - re: Venus colonisation... (n/t) - go fuck ur self - 12/11/2003 1:37:05 PM
  - re: Venus colonisation... (n/t) - go fuck ur self - 12/11/2003 1:36:55 PM
  - re: Venus colonisation... (n/t) - go fuck ur self - 12/11/2003 1:36:45 PM
  - re: Venus colonisation... (n/t) - go fuck ur self - 12/11/2003 1:36:33 PM
  - re: Venus colonisation... (n/t) - go fuck ur self - 12/11/2003 1:36:10 PM
    - Courtesy of Oxford.EDnet.NS.CA. (n/t) - et - 12/12/2003 1:46:33 AM
  - Big prob bob. - et - 11/4/2003 7:33:39 PM
- How's this for an idea. - et - 11/3/2003 7:58:50 PM
  - re: How's this for an idea. - Chris Vancil - 11/4/2003 1:35:41 AM
- Terraformation versus interstellar travel costs - Gary - 11/3/2003 12:43:23 AM
  - re: Terraformation versus interstellar travel costs - Adam - 11/3/2003 12:10:07 PM
    - 50 billion exajoules... - Adam - 11/3/2003 12:30:10 PM
      - 8 to One... - Adam - 11/3/2003 12:42:18 PM
        
        re: Power versus Energy - Success_Machine - 11/4/2003 1:39:41 AM
        
        re: A sunshade as big as a planet, covered in solar power modules - Success_Machine - 11/4/2003 1:47:17 AM
        
        200 years... - Adam - 11/5/2003 2:20:17 AM
        
        re: Chemical reactors might be more useful than just stripping the atmosphere - Success_Machine - 11/4/2003 1:54:48 AM
        
        re: Ultimate problem with Venus, it's too close to the Sun - Success_Machine - 11/4/2003 1:58:53 AM
        
        re: Create a self-regulating troposphere on Venus - Success_Machine - 11/4/2003 2:14:42 AM
        
        Very tricky... - Adam - 11/5/2003 2:29:07 AM
        
        Not tricky at all... - Nick Hoffman - 11/5/2003 1:19:19 PM
  - re: Terraformation versus interstellar travel costs - Tom Brosz - 11/3/2003 4:30:41 AM
    - Why waste the energy? - Adam - 11/3/2003 12:00:13 PM
- The cost benefit analysis - ebnelson - 11/2/2003 8:31:51 PM
  - Nitrogen for Mars... - Adam - 11/3/2003 12:04:35 PM
- $64,000 question: why bother? - Tom Brosz - 11/2/2003 7:24:45 PM
  - re: Atmosphere or no atmosphere - Raoul - 11/2/2003 9:13:23 PM
    - The US survived landing on Venus by accident - Gary - 11/3/2003 1:01:38 AM
      - re: The US survived landing on Venus by accident - Davin L. - 11/3/2003 6:17:07 PM
      - re: Electric heaters function normally at over 500 deg.K - Success_Machine - 11/3/2003 1:36:33 PM
        
        I believe(?) most integrated circuits flake out at T > 100deg.C - Gary - 11/3/2003 4:33:38 PM
        
        re: integrated circuits flake out - Tom Brosz - 11/3/2003 8:00:33 PM
        
        Refrigerators on Venus - Nick Hoffman - 11/4/2003 4:08:15 AM
        
        re: Refrigerators on Venus - Tom Brosz - 11/4/2003 4:31:07 AM
        
        re: Refrigerators on Venus - Nick Hoffman - 11/4/2003 3:36:55 PM
        
        Cool! (sorry.) - Tom Brosz - 11/4/2003 5:01:59 PM
        
        re: Corrosion of RTG and high winds on Venus - Success_Machine - 11/4/2003 4:54:42 PM
        
        One word: "ceramics." (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 11/4/2003 5:04:01 PM
        
        re: I believe(?) most integrated circuits flake out at T > 100deg.C - Frank - 11/3/2003 7:31:20 PM
        
        re: Hard to say - Success_Machine - 11/4/2003 1:33:08 AM
        
        re: I believe(?) most integrated circuits flake out at T > 100deg.C - Frank - 11/3/2003 7:31:04 PM
- re: Venus - Raoul - 11/2/2003 3:49:59 PM
  - Venus planetary dynamo - et - 11/3/2003 7:46:40 PM
    - re: Venus planetary dynamo - Nick Hoffman - 11/4/2003 4:01:49 PM
      - Where did it all go? - Adam - 11/5/2003 2:26:04 AM
        
        That damn Baxter, I did not. - et - 11/5/2003 5:43:56 PM
      - re: Venus planetary dynamo - et - 11/4/2003 7:26:48 PM
        
        You're right. - Nick Hoffman - 11/5/2003 1:15:51 PM
    - re: Yes, perhaps (n/t) - Raoul - 11/3/2003 8:21:56 PM
- re: Colonization of low-earth orbit - Success_Machine - 11/2/2003 3:31:18 PM
  - Good point SM... - Adam - 11/3/2003 12:48:40 PM
    - Mars Geology and Minerals - Nick Hoffman - 11/4/2003 4:13:41 PM
      - Thanks for the precis, Nick... Mercury mines anyone? - Adam - 11/5/2003 2:08:38 AM
        
        re: He3 - Raoul - 11/5/2003 12:42:42 PM
        
        Would you trust... - Nick Hoffman - 11/5/2003 1:13:00 PM
        
        re: Would you trust... - Raoul - 11/5/2003 4:20:38 PM

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