Side issue: How big a contributor is the sun to the Venusian hell-temperatures? Unless I'm missing something -- like massive geothermal ("venerothermal"?) input into the system -- shouldn't some manner of shading drop the temperature? What's to keep the VTP from buying vast quantities of aluminized mylar -- or buying an aluminized mylar production facility and then 'waveteching it -- and then hanging the stuff at the Sun-Venus L1 point?
It'll need a support crew to sherperd the stuff since the L1 point isn't the most stable, and to do repairs and whatnot, but even if you cut down the solar input by a just a couple percent, won't that help? Reducing the overall energy input to the Venusian atmosphere should have paybacks all over the board, just starting with a possible temperature reduction.
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...
It'll need a support crew to sherperd the stuff since the L1 point isn't the most stable, and to do repairs and whatnot, but even if you cut down the solar input by a just a couple percent, won't that help? Reducing the overall energy input to the Venusian atmosphere should have paybacks all over the board, just starting with a possible temperature reduction.
-- Bob
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...The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...