Quote:The problem with space elevators on Venus is the planet's spin is so damned slow you have to stretch the elevator cable out to 1,500,000 km in order to keep it balanced. Also, you have to worry about all the CO2 either falling back to Venus or wandering off into somebody else's ecosystem.
Perhaps a combination of space elevators with giant atmospheric filters...
The shortest route I can think of immediately would be to use a sunshade and wavetech radiators or heatsinks of some sort, cut off the energy input and start sucking away as much heat as possible. Once the CO2 starts to freeze out, the Senshi can release the Crystal Milennium goo, start coverting all that dry ice into diamond & oxide/carbonate rocks. Still leaves the spin and water problems, but the Castles can handle both of those easily enough. (Imagine, once the Castles spin Venus up to a proper day-night cycle, they detach, head for the Kuiper and grab a nice cometary body a little larger than Pluto. Haul it back and start stripping it for water.)---
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