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Let's take the 2020 figures for annual human carbon dioxide emmissions.

35 billion metric tons.

What's your back of the envelope energy figure for extracting that weight of a gas from the atmosphere, pressurising it, and lifting it to orbit and sending it to Venus?

Got a rough notion of the number of trips, fuel and resources that would need every single year?

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