Could power be generated using the temperature difference in venus's atmosphere?
On Venus the surface is around 467 degrees Celsius. At the top of the atmosphere it is much cooler, and at around 60 km above the surface the temperature is around 40 to 50 degrees Celsius. This is a large difference, and I think it could be used to generate power. Could one build a structure to harvest energy from this temperature difference?
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100% YES It s called an updraft tower.
You can actually even do that on earth in the Deserts (solar updraft towers).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower
On Venus you wouldn't even need the "solar" part. Just build a tall updraft tower.
The question is would it make sense? By the time we want to colonize Venus, we would probably have shifted to a hydrogen economy (cold fusion based) so it would probably by orders of magnitude cheaper to just bring your cold fusion generation with you instead of building updraft towers on Venus given that a few kg of Helium3 would be enough to power a colony for centuries.
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