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Gas dwarfs into Super-Earths
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The world Pluton is an example of this kind of 'stripped core'; the light gases from this planet's atmosphere have been stripped, leaving behind the water core, which is frozen on the surface to form a massive icy planet. The terraforming of this world is confined to an equatorial strip.

I'm pretty sure that extracting the atmosphere from such a world would result in a lot of waste heat, so that the surface of the world would not immediately freeze -the initial result would be a hot water surface with a water vapour atmosphere. But if the heat can be extracted (using OTEC technology, for example) then some of this heat could be made available for work.
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Gas dwarfs into Super-Earths - by stevebowers - 10-20-2016, 10:05 AM
RE: Gas dwarfs into Super-Earths - by Rynn - 10-20-2016, 10:29 PM
RE: Gas dwarfs into Super-Earths - by Drashner1 - 10-21-2016, 11:14 AM
RE: Gas dwarfs into Super-Earths - by stevebowers - 10-21-2016, 05:17 AM

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