On 17Jul2017 1756, Kelly St. Clair wrote:

> My only concern is that you're going to wind up with a LOT of spare
> carbon, which you're going to have to either process somehow and ship
> it back on the supply ships, or blow it out into space - in which
> case, your station will soon end up surrounded by a giant cloud of
> soot.

Well, those ships probably aren't carrying much else. Also, there's
plenty of oxygen too, so you could choose to be surrounded in a cloud of
CO2 instead. :)

I expect you'd form the carbon into pellets and shove it away along a
set vector at low velocity, and mark that vector as "don't fly your ship
here". In a few million years somebeing will find them and wonder what
the hell a few million tons of elemental carbon is doing slowly drifting
through interstellar space like that.

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