Well, after cursory examination of the wikipedia entry for Venus (or in other words, the average research carried out by a Fen before beginning a project ;-) ) I've come up with a few ideas.
The long range plan for terraforming Venus is to bind a large percentage of the carbon now in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide into solids (diamonds, for example) and much of the associated oxygen with hydrogen (shipped in from the gas giants) to create water. This should also reduce the atmospheric pressure to something a bit more survivable. Exporting it is also an option, although who would want vast amounts of carbon dioxide is a small problem.
The current atmosphere (90 times as dense as Earths) makes it difficult and dangerous to actually get down to surface level (but not to the extent that Fen and other interested parties can't do so). Some rather random work with plants has in fact begun spreading plants across the highland regions, particularly the northern continent (which is being sold off slowly to land speculators to fund the whole business). Venusian broadleaf is a mutant strain and one of the most successful in suvival terms, which is a pity because it's not fantasically useful for anything that the terraformers care about. Still, it's breaking the ground for other plants.
The current headquarters of the Venus Terraforming Project is Crystal Tokyo, which is suspended by it's own atmosphere about 50km above the surface (an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere is a lifting gas on Venus, roughly equivalent to helium on Earth). Crystal Tokyo is a wonder of the solar system and is in fact a single huge (industrial-grade) diamond. It's predominantly made up of terraforming machinery, however, so few outsiders are allowed close enough to discover this.
Other interesting things about Venus include the work on an orbital elevator, which looks like it might beat it's rival project on Mars.
D for Drakensis
You're only young once, but immaturity is forever.
The long range plan for terraforming Venus is to bind a large percentage of the carbon now in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide into solids (diamonds, for example) and much of the associated oxygen with hydrogen (shipped in from the gas giants) to create water. This should also reduce the atmospheric pressure to something a bit more survivable. Exporting it is also an option, although who would want vast amounts of carbon dioxide is a small problem.
The current atmosphere (90 times as dense as Earths) makes it difficult and dangerous to actually get down to surface level (but not to the extent that Fen and other interested parties can't do so). Some rather random work with plants has in fact begun spreading plants across the highland regions, particularly the northern continent (which is being sold off slowly to land speculators to fund the whole business). Venusian broadleaf is a mutant strain and one of the most successful in suvival terms, which is a pity because it's not fantasically useful for anything that the terraformers care about. Still, it's breaking the ground for other plants.
The current headquarters of the Venus Terraforming Project is Crystal Tokyo, which is suspended by it's own atmosphere about 50km above the surface (an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere is a lifting gas on Venus, roughly equivalent to helium on Earth). Crystal Tokyo is a wonder of the solar system and is in fact a single huge (industrial-grade) diamond. It's predominantly made up of terraforming machinery, however, so few outsiders are allowed close enough to discover this.
Other interesting things about Venus include the work on an orbital elevator, which looks like it might beat it's rival project on Mars.
D for Drakensis
You're only young once, but immaturity is forever.