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OK, our moon sucks and Venus it is, and yes Pluto got the royal shaft,
as seemingly Ceres is getting a similar official NASA fid.

While roasting our weiners on Venus, how much energy do you suppose a
good air conditioning system as part of your CO2--CO/O2 process is
going to demand?

Remember, at that sort of pressure you'll not require more than a 1% O2
factor, and the remainder should be of H2. Thus 99% H2 and 1% O2. Also
remember that you'll be continually fighting off the lesser gravity of
90.5%, and otherwise having all of that pesky 64+ kg/m3 of buoyancy to
fend off. Of course, if you only had half a village idiot brain, as
such you might utilize such factors as to your benefit.

Say per 1000 m3/(interior 10 x 20 x 5 meter abode) if that Venusian
habitat volume were insulated at R-1024/m2; what's the thermal budget
of keeping your cache of beer and vodka icy cold?

That's roughly a surface/foundation area of 264 m2, a portion of what
should be roughly a 828 m2 exterior that's exposed to the hotter than
hell surface that's getting rid of 20 J/m2, and otherwise fending off
the somewhat toasty atmosphere. Therefore it's nearly always hot
outside and there's just the structual composite insulated barrier of
R-1024/m that's giving way to an inward flux of thermal conduction
that's worth 0.00097656/m2 to deal with, which seems rather managable,
if not a touch overkill.

Is there something otherwise specific that you'd like to review or
contribute, such as on behalf of those nifty composite rigid airships?

How about we review on behalf of defending yourself from those
exoskeletal Cathars that can't seem to take no for an answer?

Would you like to talk about the VL2 platform/depot or how about
interplanetary communications?
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Brad Guth


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