02-07-2017, 05:09 AM
(02-07-2017, 02:27 AM)QwertyYerty Wrote: Is this a typo? Would it make sense that the Cishp would be exporting nitrogen to the belt?It is relatively easy to obtain nitrogen on Titan, by skimming the thick atmosphere of that world using scoopships; most of the Belt will be deficient in nitrogen, since the asteroids have low escape velocities and ammonia ices would be rare. But the colder transneptunian objects might be better sources, since the exports would not need to escape Saturn's gravity well.
231 - The colony on Titan became important to the Belt as a source of nitrogen, and the first experiments using Geoflex Computing occur on Enceladus.
I think nitrogen would be in sufficient demand for habitat atmospheres and biological growth to justify exports from both sources. The various Martian terraformation attempts would need as much nitrogen as possible, and if Zubrin is correct, this could be obtained from the outer system. But Titanian nitrogen exports could supply less demanding markets.