I just read that even if we step on it, hydrogen fuel cells will take at least 50 years to make a significant dent in our fossil fuel consumption--> Technology Review website, latest issue.
So I guess if terraforming Venus is going to take millenia, we might as well get started now. Life on Earth doesn't seem like it's going to drastically improve anytime soon. OK, I know, that was weird. I'm exhausted from too many crises at work and am feeling just plain old goofy and strange. But I have enjoyed this thread. Thanks to all for being so intelligent and creative and *interesting*. -vk > > We did some of this math for the Transhuman Space: In the Well playtest. > There's a lot of problems with terraforming venus; just adding water > isn't enough. With a lot of resources spent on building a giant shade, > you can probably cool things down enough to allow starting with the next > step in several hundred years. Actually binding all that CO2 is the work > of millennia if you're using means that are powered by solar energy, and > all other options require ridiculous amounts of hardware. > _______________________________________________ > GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> > http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
