Rakhasa Wrote:That was the reason for Solid Air:Quote:Cobalt Greywalker wrote:Yes, but you need air, as in, a certain volume of assorted gases, to fill your space habitat before you can even think of making it breathable. Air=/=Oxygen, after all.
RE: the Jupiter stations.
With regards to air (or at least oxygen), Greenpeace spent a lot of time travelling around the Belt doing her photosynthesis thing whilst trading plants. It's one of the main reasons hurting her pretty much qualifies as a Darwin Award.
While, yes, you can do it for yourself (all the first pioneers did it), if there is a company that gathers and sells that air it will save your habitat a lot of effort. And since that company already has an air industry, developing ir further so you can turn that air into atmosphere and sell the finished product is a logical next step. And most, or all, of those extra gases that you took away while makign this breathabel air will probably have soem use in one industry or another, so why should you dump thnaback to Jupiter whan you can sell it?
Bit by bit, a ful air processing industry is born.
http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?title=Solid_Air
Seeing as 80% of your air is nitrogen. Air leaks, that is why it needs replacement.
Maybe one of the gas giant processing companies is "Moria Air Mining"?
I think the Morians might get on reasonable well with Marduk...
http://www.fenspace.net/i....php5?title=Moria_Mining
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