Cross-post: Venus

alt_cosmos wrote:

> It would be a LOT easier to terraform Venus than Mars, in terms of
> energy (a calculation I will be posting soon - I'm currently working on
> Galactic maps).

:-) Yeah? Have you even begun to consider the energy required to spin Venus
up to something terrestrial? Or are you contemplating sealed habs with
day/night shows? And therefore why not just make orbital spun ones?

> Venus only needs to be cooled down...

Interesting use of the word "only". I can't wait to see a timescale for this.

> then some of the
> atmosphere to be compressed and stored in a gas cylinder type
> structure.

Some?

Get real. Venus is a hell hole. I can see limited habs floating at around
the fifty km altitude, relying on solar energy, reasonable pressures and
temperatures close to what we're used to. But the surface is well
off-limits while economics has anything to do with it.

Andy G