• perestroika@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    A colony on the surface of Venus would have other (more pressing) limiting factors than hydrogen production.

    Among them, cooling - as far as we know, it’s almost hot enough to melt aluminum on the surface, and the pressure is 93 Earth atmospheres, giving the highly corrosive Venusian atmosphere excellent thermal conductivity to quickly cook any human despite passive and active protection.

    A colony could perhaps exist floating in the clouds, but Mars and the asteroids are generally considered better candidates for space colonization.

    Thus, I think the foremost application of this technology will be on Earth. :)