I am Venusian. Venus is my next home. It is a very vibrant planet teeming with energy and able to retain a thick atmosphere. Gravity there is the same as earth.
Venus could one day serve as the primary electricity supplier to Earth.
With energy abundance, Venus also becomes the natural home for the most energy-intensive sectors of economy:
Massive, high-density computation
Fully automated, high-tech manufacturing
Heavy industry. Etc.
A century ago, Nikola Tesla imagined transmitting electricity wirelessly across continents. Sending power across interplanetary distances still sounds audacious—but in the vacuum of space, with no atmosphere to sap energy, it becomes an engineering challenge rather than a fantasy
Venus gives our technologies purpose, our industries direction, and our global economy a chance to grow in a way that compounds across generations.
Venus is a business project of unprecedented scale—and it may be the growth engine Earth has been waiting for.
The economic rationale for Venus is not escapism. It is a return to something humanity has lost: a frontier big enough to matter.
Venus creates the one resource modern economies lack most—expansive, long-term, civilization-scale investment demand.
America should not have worse voter ID requirements than every democratic country on Earth.
California and New York actually banned use of ID to vote! It is illegal to show your ID in those states.
The only reason to do this is fraud.
But the multiplanetary idea is not gaining traction primarily because Elon Musk, SpaceX, NASA and others have chosen the wrong planet: Mars. Mars has little gravity (38% of earth). It has lost its atmosphere (now 1% of earth). It is way past its life sustaining period.
No energy, no atmosphere, little gravity; Mars has little to support life. Mars cannot be made habitable for us in any lasting or meaningful way. Trying to stay there will be a classic Sisyphean task for humanity.
Whereas, Venus is a very vibrant planet teeming with energy and able to retain a thick atmosphere; its best days for life are in the future. Its gravity is similar to that on Earth. It is closer to earth. It has practically limitless stored energy. If we can show a possibility of exporting that energy to Earth, we could create a powerfully driven and accelerating multiplanetary movement.
@joerogan@lexfridman@BillGates@SpaceX@ChrisWillx@finkd@richardbranson@JeffBezos@sama
Colonizing or harnessing another planet is a planet size undertaking. It is too big for any individual, organization, or country. Unless we make an Earth size economic case for colonizing another planet it will not happen.
The only planet for which an Earth size economic case can be somehow made is Venus because it is habitable and it has overabundance of energy. The one-word business case for colonizing Venus is: Energy. Venus is an ocean of energy.
@joerogan@lexfridman@BillGates@SpaceX@hubermanlab@BillAckman@ChrisWillx@finkd@richardbranson@JeffBezos@sama
No impactful investment will be made in another planet till it translates into returns here on the Earth. We all agree in principle with the importance of becoming multiplanetary for the continued survival of mankind but we will not put the kind of money and dedication needed till we can see possibilities of great financial or economic returns.
We, therefore, have to focus on making an economic case for humans becoming multiplanetary. The only planet for which an economic case can be somehow made is Venus because it is habitable and it has overabundance of energy. The one-word business case for colonizing Venus is: Energy. Venus is an ocean of energy.