Life on Venus is absolute hell, but doable

From: Brad Guth (bradguth_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 21:47:40 +0000 (UTC)

For the likes of all those folks that can't possibly think outside their
box, much less handle any humor; Here's another tough go at my plot, my
hidden agenda, my ulterior motive to overthrow the US government by way
of proving life (not necessarily of purely organic origins) once existed
and may even have survived in spite of our all-knowing selves. In other
words, I've been leaving the front door wide open for accommodating ETs.

This isn't suggesting that Venus is sufficient for humanity. Although,
here's my short list of items if found upon Venus that would need hardly
if any energy in order to function. I'm even fairly certian that you can
do this one better, that is unless you've been spending way too much
time in the company of Charles Manson and Ted Kaczynski.

1) OVENS and TOASTERS, as obviously if there's something/anthing that
needs to be cooked, as such we're talking about somewhat seriously
terrific combinations of extreme flash, extreme pressure and certainly
highly convection style cooking on steriods. Entirely self cleaning no
less.

2) HOT WATER, as in you've got to be absolutely kidding; Whom in their
right lizard or exoskeletal mind would ever have to utilize artificial
energy for heating water?

3) CHEMICAL PROCESS HEATING, is another fairly obvious done deal, as
besides the ambiant conditions and especially along with loads of nearby
geothermal considerations that you'd think should be fairly hard to pass
up. Thus whatever artificial process heating combined with a little
vacuum is going to be accomplishing a great deal of energy intensive
work without hardly 10% being artificial joules worth of contributed
energy.

4) ELEVATORS, as in buoyancy (balloon lift) on one end of the equation
and otherwise 90.5% gravity along with basalt/silica composites that are
nearly 1:1 against that nifty atmosphere, especially if those structural
composite microspheres are displaced with h2.

5) NIGHTTIME ILLUMINATION, as either via bio-illuminating cells or
naturally fluorescing substances, and/or powered by bimetallic
(Chromel/Alumel) thermopiles can easily accommodate up micro-gap Xenon
lamps, and obviously that's without any need for having pressure
containment of the required CO2 nor gas preheating. Thus binary
code/pulse xenon should be another natural.

6) WASTE DISPOSAL, of just about anything you can think of becomes
history and/or sterialized shortly after being placed outside.
Porta-incinerators instead of porta-potties, and so forth.

7~99 you pick just about whatever needs a small or even a fair amount of
energy on Earth, and it'll likely become nearly energy free upon Venus.

A short list of some things requiring a slight bit of energy;

a) Obtaining fluids from those somewhat cool nighttime clouds is merely
a matter of deploying a balloon or small rigid airship (robotic if need
be) into those clouds, collecting whatever amounts desired and returning
to the surface, as perhaps already processed into pure H2O and/or H2O2
for safe keeping).

b) Distillation process of obtaining water would require evaporator
pumps and some methods of containment (slight pressurization). Simply
taking advantage of the relatively cool nighttime environment that's
near or especially within those clouds, as otherwise there's loads of
capable geothermal process cooling that may require about 100 times the
surface area as per heat-exchanging here on Earth, which should also
more than accomplish the distillation process of condensing.

c) Processing the already toasty and nicely pressurized CO2-->CO/O2
seems somewhat of an obvious done deal, although as a byproduct or
perhaps intentional side benefit of that same process of having to
electroytically leach CO2 through a ceramic membrane on behalf of
extracting CO/O2 is also suggesting the opportunity of geothermal
heat-exchanging upon some portion of that processed CO2, essentially
releasing the highly pressurised, cooled and thereby nearly liquified
CO2 through an evaporator that's good for whatever amounts of extracting
those surplus VTUs that you can possibly think of.

d) Once the CO2-->CO/O2 process is underway, the next consideration is
for getting rid of that nasty CO by way of storing it for the task of
burning that substance along with whatever other substance(s) are on
hand, such as the product of O2 and/or perhaps even a bit of H2O2 from
the process being utilized for the safekeeping of H2O.

e) Next to Hot-Tubs, Rigid airships are all the rage on Venus;
Constructed of basalt/silica composites, thus extremely lightweight and
insulative to the tune of R-1024/m. As for having 65+kg/m3 in buoyancy,
surrounded by a calm and essentially crystal clear ocean of mostly CO2,
plus a retrograde atmospheric flow that helps keep yourself within the
season of nighttime is like having a tidal flow that nearly always going
exactly where it is you'll need to go. However, burning off the likes of
CO/O2, and possibly even a touch of H2O2 if you required an energy
booster for getting your rigid airship up to some serious speed and
thereby safely through and cruising above them relatively cool nighttime
clouds is technically doable.

f) Vacuum tube electronics are robust and actually energy efficient,
right at home within the worst possible daytime of 750°K, or even the
worst possible Venus style death valley of 811°K is technically doable
with thermal tolerance to spare. Of course, in the season of nighttime
when the elevated terrain gets below 600°K, chances are that some extra
energy will be required for keeping those cathodes hot.

g) Venus internet is rather exceptionaly efficient, whereas individual
stations using a laser of perhaps 10 mw and 0.5 milliradian operate as
far as the nocturnal eye can see, which is actually horizon to horizon
because, the atmosphere below those cool nighttime clouds is nearly
always crystal clear. Thus conventional binary packets are good for go,
and/or quantum binary enables 1e12 bps to flow from FIFO transponder
node to transpinder node, easily and efficiently covers their local
requirements if not the entire globe. The FIFO transfer nodes can even
be passive and/or active transponders, and depending upon the desired
spectrum and throughput can be directly intercepted by the naked
nocturnal eye far better off then we read a newspaper by moonlight.
Overall, that's less than 1/1000 of what it takes here on Earth and, our
human eyes can't hardly function below the 400 nm spectrum, not to
mention we're not even using a laser internet and those FIFO packet
nodes, thus we require a great deal of applied technology and loads of
energy to operate it, that plus an average of 500 watts per individual
PC/Monitor and accessories, which makes the Venus PC and internet usage
rather energy efficient and somewhat undetectable, if need be entirely
user to user or perhaps eye to eye privet.

h~z are for you to offer upon whatever needs a fair amount energy on
Earth, whereas it'll likely become 1000% more energy efficient upon
Venus, meaning that with the exception of ventilating and air
conditioning(VAC) taking 1w/VTU, of whatever else takes 10 kw on Earth
may require 1 kw if not less upon Venus.

Of what may demand lots of energy and some of that nifty R-1024/m
structural insulation;

For certain the process of CO2-->CO/O2 is going to suck energy, although
the CO2 density and nicely preheating is already good for go, so perhaps
there's as little as 1/10th the process energy demand as here on Earth,
and certainly not 1% of what it's going to take upon Mars (this is
especially attractive for Venus since none of the required process
energy needs to be imported from Earth).

Then how about the task of providing one hell of a lot of subsequent air
conditioning that might initially drain off 1 watts/BTU, making a Venus
Thermal Unit(VTU) worth as bad off as 1:1, although that 1w/VTU
performance should be improved upon by simply increasing the
heat-exchanger and evaporator surface areas by 10 fold, thus a cooling
VTU as great as 10 becomes possible (energy-in = energy-out), and
remembering that CO2 is actually quite a darn good freon replacement.

Getting an absolutely massive (360 X 3600 m) rigid airship up to good
speed (200+ knots) as cruising above them cool nighttime clouds should
only take 25 some odd megawatts (intermittent 50 MW), of which a CO/O2
multi-fueled turbine engine(s) amounting to 34,000 SHP shouldn't be all
that complicated, or even all that inefficient, especially if the
hot-sections are nearly 100% ceramic. And, don't forget those lofty
Venus tail winds that are capable of kicking serious airship ***,
usually in the intended direction at that.

I've been informed by all sorts of great minds that with energy nearly
all things seemingly insurmountable become surmountable. Are they lying
to us, or is this another one of those cold-war stings of phony baloney
physics and science that's entirely conditional to the social/political
whims of the era?

To the accomplishment of resident or ET folks easily obtaining said
energy;
With the modern invention of the power turbine (conventional axial as
well as for the radial format which takes the fullest advantage of
pressure, mass-flow and thermal differentials into account, thereby
converts such into torque and subsequently joules), thus whatever's
electro-mechanical or any energy demanding process gets whatever it
needs, and then some. All that's required is essentially a large
vertical pipe/tunnel (vertical venturi) as providing access to a
suitable differential tower of power for such energy conversion from the
4+bar/km, 10°K/km and of the 65 kg/m3 worth of a surrounding ocean of
mostly clear CO2 may transpire. By having the before mentioned power
turbine situated within or at either end of that vertical tunnel, or
even as situated within a perfectly natural/geological collum or
vertical hollow rille passage will accomodate this method. Let's call
this form of utility energy extraction and capitalization 'VENRON', that
way we can feel All-American warm and fuzzy about overcharging folks a
thousand to one of what's essentially renewable and damn near free for
the taking.

I know that I've mentioned a few thousand times about the 4+bar/km and
the likely 10°K/km of the somewhat cooler Venus atmospheric nighttime
environment as being absolutely chuck full of energy potential, and that
if anything I was remaining conservative. Of course, mainstreamers can't
possibly even admit to getting your cold-war hands on any of that
energy, especially if you've been thoroughly snookered into believing
those NASA/Apollo fly-by-rocket cows are ever coming home.

The same physics that supposedly placed man on the moon, or at least
into orbiting it, and got a nifty probe safely onto Titan is actually
all that I'm using to support the notions and perhaps pure conjecture(s)
as based upon deductive reasoning, that which was trigered by remote
observations and my subsequent interpretations as of five years ago, of
what's most likely artificial about a small area of the Venus surface. I
guess most all-knowing folks would just as soon dispose of the 'holy
Grail' along with the remains of their last 'Happy Meal', meaning if
they don't know of nor could they even apprieciate what the holy Grail
looks like, it's most likely that such would have been tossed without
remorse, along with all their other junk.

Have you looked at the images: http://guthvenus.tripod.com/gv-town.htm
Regards, Brad Guth / GASA-IEIS
http://guthvenus.tripod.com/update-242.htm 

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