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by defrost 600 days ago
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?