Cash crops

As time goes on over Venus, some farms will go for the agribusiness side. These will be tended not by tenants, but by absentees.

Such a farm takes in CO₂ (and some N₂) from outside, which is always higher-pressure than inside. When bees and humans need to use the farm, the bubble is drained of CO₂ and set to a high O₂:N₂ ratio.

On that topic some farms will need pollen. Mau Forest (Kenyan) bees will fly at 2.9km up. We do have Kenyans here to tend them.

Such a bubble will ride lower and hotter, in “spring”. In “summer” the bubble rises up to our 55km, and the bees return to hive. Excess O₂ (anything beyond what a bee needs) is removed from the bubble manually, as these plants grow. “Autumn”: excess CO₂ is scrubbed, sufficient O₂ added, humans enter. Cycle repeats. There is no “winter”.

SPLIT from 12 December, 2019.