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has the carbon in abundance

Hi Scott

Venus certainly has a lot of relatively easily accessed carbon, the main component of nanotubes - and at least one nanotube making process uses sulphuric acid I seem to recall.

Like I said let's make Cloud Cities on Venus rather than trying to remake Venus itself. Yet I still wonder if we'll find a way of caging up all that CO2 in buckyballs. Stephen Baxter's "Exultant" visits Venus in 25,000 CE and it is covered in carba snow, supplying carbon to the human galaxy.

Adam

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