To: Boiler Plate
Many ways. I've covered them here before.
Assuming it could be built: You can start with conservation on angular momentum. As the payload is lifted the counter balance at the top must be reboosted to stay in it's obit. Same energy is needed as to launch the payload in the first place.
22 posted on
11/17/2004 8:47:19 PM PST by
John Jamieson
(Hybrids are a highway around CAFE, that's all they're good for.)
To: John Jamieson
The platform is placed beyond geostationary so the platform is pulling the crawler's weight up.
To: John Jamieson
Not if it's rigid though, so that the counter-balance couldn't move. (So what if we pull an astroid down on our heads...)
What if we build a tri-pod of ribbons, and then tether the whole thing to the moon? Or Jupiter?
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