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>>16018302
bruh, isn't this just a hydro electric dam?
Think about it carefully, for the water to flow in your drawing, the region where all 4 streams meet have to be at a lower altitude than the body of water it comes from, otherwise the water just settles. How is this different from a dam?
They also use altitude and water flow to produce energy, your design is just stupid big.
Also, no such thing as perpetual motion; suck enough energy out of the system and even this big boy vortex will stop. There's a limit to how much energy it can produce, because there's a limited amount of water, even if this is continent sized.

>>15904372
2STO lifting body? Accelerate to orbit once you clear the thick parts of the atmosphere.
Forgive my lack of knowledge, but a whole floating platform sounds exaggerated (but fuckin cool)
something like image related and then adapted for venusian flight. use 2 of them.
I do wonder how lifting bodies would fly in that thicc fuckin atmosphere.