Peebothuhlu wrote:
At work.
Just a point.
I know the energy gradient is higher to acheive BUT would it not be better to dispose of said atomic emitters into Venus?
My memory fails me atm, I think it was a Youtube vid, which explained that the energy etc expended into the Venusian atmosphere would be good at helping reduce the current 'Greenhouse' CO2 effect.
My addendum would be to modify said devices into 'Casaba Howitzer' type detonators to try ans add spin to said rotational period.
Thoughts?
If it’s the one I’m thinking of the video proposed using nukes near the edge of the atmosphere to ‘blow off’ chunks of it to reduce the atmosphere. And it won’t work. The ‘idea’ was to reduce the atmosphere to a lower level but doing so would require enough bombs (energy) that the whole surface of Venus would be irradiated lava to even get any notable effect.
“Casaba Howitzer” is actually worse as it is effectively a ‘directed energy weapon’ it would punch right through the atmosphere with negligible effect and while it would impact the surface it would not impart significant energy to effect Venus’ spin.
Oh yes! Definitely , indubitably.
However 'Waste not, want not.' and all that.
I mean..... other than the items just 'Sitting on the shelf' until the elements decay and they have to be rebuilt back up to snuff.
Not how it works though. The only elements that ‘decay’ are some of the ‘booster’ elements which have to be replaced every couple of years. The other ‘replacement’ component is the high explosives which degrade over time due to age and radiation and some of the circuitry which degrades due to radiation.
My point is that Venus has better options for terra-forming due to it being closer to Earth in its surface gravity.
It's the slow 'Top spin' that's a bit of a bugger to deal with if we do thin out the clouds.
Hence why I asked about adding energy to help increase Venus' wayward rotation.
Despite it tending to be a “thing” associated with nuclear weapons, (from what I can gather being a ‘staple’ of bad science fiction in the 50s and 60s) not even the Tsar Bomb, (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba, which was only 50 megatons as opposed to its theoretical 100 megatons or 1 gigaton yield) wasn’t powerful enough to marginally effect the Earth’s rotation and/or tilt. You’d need thousands of (full yield) bombs to even marginally effect Venus’ rotation or atmosphere. And most weapons are only a few kilotons rather than megatons, let alone gigatons.
Randy