To: 2ndDivisionVet
According to space systems engineer Peter Swan, Director of the International Space Elevator Consortium, this device is about three to four decades away. I think I first read about space elevators when I was a teen more than thirty years ago.
I don’t think they are any closer to reality now.
Anybody remember the space tether experiment failure of STS-75.
A space elevator would generate a considerable amount of current traveling down the shaft.
Space Tether Experiment
3 posted on
08/04/2014 12:53:07 AM PDT by
Pontiac
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To: Pontiac
A space elevator would generate a considerable amount of current traveling down the shaft.
Maybe that’s the answer to our energy problems.
9 posted on
08/04/2014 1:18:27 AM PDT by
tet68
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To: Pontiac
Arthur C Clarke came up with the idea.
13 posted on
08/04/2014 3:51:59 AM PDT by
wiggen
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