[edwin hubble]

Great work on this thread, RightWhale.

Re: the latitude of the anchor point. I got into a discussion with Boris back in July on this subject.
He insisted that only an equatorial anchor will work.
(I heard later that Clarke had 'moved' the anchor point Sri Lanka to the equator in his novel 'Fountains of Paradise'.

But here are some results of calculations by Blaise Gassend of MIT with graphs and analysis of several space elevator designs with non-equatorial anchor points.

http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/gassend/elevator/off-center-elevator.html

And, here is that space elevator thread from July 28th:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/952771/posts?page=107#107

[RightWhale]

Tnx for checking in. The MIT link might be dead.

[edwin hubble]

Sorry, the site for the link in #58 (Space Elevator calculations and graphs) seems to have been pulled by the author at MIT.

But the link to the July FR thread on Space Elevators is good.