A friend of mine who is a pilot sent me this link, I thought it was interesting and thought others here may enjoy it. If you think about it, it's like perpetual motion in the sky.
http://www.elevator2010.org/site/primer.html
Ralph
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Yeah....romantic notion ain't it?
If you discount the proposition that a highly conductive carbon nanotube cable is extending from the earth's surface through an ionosphere just itching to send billions of watts to ground.....
Not to mention plethoric other hazards.....
Watched a video once of an STS mission supposedly involving the release of an Italian satellite on a 12 mile long 1" diameter tether.
The charge differential in just that length snapped the tether and lit it up like a neon tube......as it drifted 100 miles from the shuttle, the satellite it was attatched to was not visible, however the 1" tether was the brightest thing in the night sky!
Given enough time, man might complete such a task.....
He could then call it T2!
Short for Tower of Babel 2
Peace,
TS
If you discount the proposition that a highly conductive carbon nanotube cable is extending from the earth's surface through an ionosphere just itching to send billions of watts to ground.....
Not to mention plethoric other hazards.....
Watched a video once of an STS mission supposedly involving the release of an Italian satellite on a 12 mile long 1" diameter tether.
The charge differential in just that length snapped the tether and lit it up like a neon tube......as it drifted 100 miles from the shuttle, the satellite it was attatched to was not visible, however the 1" tether was the brightest thing in the night sky!
Given enough time, man might complete such a task.....
He could then call it T2!
Short for Tower of Babel 2
Peace,
TS
As most of humanity suffers under tyrants, misled by the devil and his cohorts who've recently been thrown down here, nothing short of Yahshua, King of Kings, will remove these oppressors and bring everlasting peace.
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This is yet another bizarre sci-fi type engineering project that, most likely and thankfully, will never get off of the drawing board.
With that "crawler" carrying payloads up and down the ribbon daily, it would not be long before the ribbon wore out or snagged. One tear in it and a big length of its 62,000 miles could come floating down to Earth. I, for one, do not want to have to clean up the mess it would make!
ken
With that "crawler" carrying payloads up and down the ribbon daily, it would not be long before the ribbon wore out or snagged. One tear in it and a big length of its 62,000 miles could come floating down to Earth. I, for one, do not want to have to clean up the mess it would make!
ken
On 7/6/06, I found, in any overbalanced gravity wheel with rotation rate, ω, axle to CG distance d, and CG dip angle φ, the average vertical velocity of its drive weights is downward and given by:
Vaver = -2(√2)πdωcosφ
Vaver = -2(√2)πdωcosφ
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As Techstuf said the electrical potentials in the atmosphere would probably keep such an invention from being feasible. My understanding of the long tether experiment from the space shuttle was that they were trying to generate electrical power as in a homopolar generator. A rotating conductor (the tether) moving through a magnetic field (the earths field) will develope an electrical potential. This experiment succeeded too well and if the tether had not broken might have fried the electrical system on the shuttle.
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Vic...
I don't doubt that the Space Shuttle experiment must have created an awesome voltage. Imagine a single conductor moving through a weak magnetic field at 18,000 mph!
ken
I don't doubt that the Space Shuttle experiment must have created an awesome voltage. Imagine a single conductor moving through a weak magnetic field at 18,000 mph!
ken
On 7/6/06, I found, in any overbalanced gravity wheel with rotation rate, ω, axle to CG distance d, and CG dip angle φ, the average vertical velocity of its drive weights is downward and given by:
Vaver = -2(√2)πdωcosφ
Vaver = -2(√2)πdωcosφ
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I once saw a pictorial thought provoking joke in an electronics magazine. It depicted a satellite pulling a sawed off whiskey barrel full of dirt. Stuck in the dirt was a ground rod tied to the satellite.
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