Is anyone involved in the CHON shipping business, please?
Is this Jupiter Mining territory?
Logically, I'd assume there is a triangle route, from Venus, freezing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, to Titan orbiting Saturn, using nitrogen from the atmosphere to convert the carbon dioxide into ammonium nitrate and carbon, then to Luna, where the NH4NO3 and elemental carbon is sold as 'solid air' and lunar regolith is shipped to Venus. The "Solid Air" product (and 'free' simple waved devices that process it) are then shipped from Luna all over the Solar System.
In theory you could use Terran atmosphere as the source of nitrogen, but this is politically infeasible ("They're Stealing Our Air!"), and Terra has quite a few laws about ammonium nitrate, due to its use in making (improvised) explosives.
I can see CHOAM would like this business, but I'd think there were lots of smaller contractors in the "Air Trade Triangle".
I'd like to propose that the Air Trade becomes important in the 2012-2022 period.
META: Air Trade ships are big and slow, most raiders wont bother them unless they are really desperate. But, maybe you could have some interesting stories set on them, if they are significant. The Fenspace equivalent of oil tankers, or maybe tramp steamers.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
Is this Jupiter Mining territory?
Logically, I'd assume there is a triangle route, from Venus, freezing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, to Titan orbiting Saturn, using nitrogen from the atmosphere to convert the carbon dioxide into ammonium nitrate and carbon, then to Luna, where the NH4NO3 and elemental carbon is sold as 'solid air' and lunar regolith is shipped to Venus. The "Solid Air" product (and 'free' simple waved devices that process it) are then shipped from Luna all over the Solar System.
In theory you could use Terran atmosphere as the source of nitrogen, but this is politically infeasible ("They're Stealing Our Air!"), and Terra has quite a few laws about ammonium nitrate, due to its use in making (improvised) explosives.
I can see CHOAM would like this business, but I'd think there were lots of smaller contractors in the "Air Trade Triangle".
I'd like to propose that the Air Trade becomes important in the 2012-2022 period.
META: Air Trade ships are big and slow, most raiders wont bother them unless they are really desperate. But, maybe you could have some interesting stories set on them, if they are significant. The Fenspace equivalent of oil tankers, or maybe tramp steamers.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind