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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 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)

Well if you read the article that I linked to you will see that the space tether failed because the current and voltage traveling on the tether cause heating in the tether causing it to fail.

A space elevator would be exposed to all kinds of weather extremes including space weather.

Even minor solar mass ejections can produce high currents in surface electric transmission lines. Consider the potential currents that a space elevator mighty be subjected to.

I think that there may be all kinds of engineering hurdles yet to be thought of for a space elevator.

10 posted on 08/04/2014 1:37:05 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)