Re: beanstalks (was Re: Metallic hydrogen ...)
From: E.R. (economic_refugee_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/08/04
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Date: 8 Jun 2004 13:42:15 -0700
mmeron@cars3.uchicago.edu wrote in message news:<aOfxc.33$25.7526@news.uchicago.edu>...
> In article <a11b144e.0406072207.2c7df4dd@posting.google.com>, economic_refugee@yahoo.com (E.R.) writes:
> >The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@aurigae.athghost7038suus.net> wrote in message news:<gi7ep1-s3a.ln1@lexi2.athghost7038suus.net>...
> >> In sci.physics, Michael Varney
> >> <varney@colorado_no_spam.edu>
> >> wrote
> >> on Mon, 7 Jun 2004 03:45:28 -0600
> >> <4PWwc.2$DE6.2327@news.uswest.net>:
> >> >
> >> > <mmeron@cars3.uchicago.edu> wrote in message
> >> > news:5OTwc.13$25.2262@news.uchicago.edu...
> >> >> In article <a11b144e.0406062207.c18cce3@posting.google.com>,
> economic_refugee@yahoo.com (E.R.) writes:
> >> >> >Uncle Al <UncleAl0@hate.spam.net> wrote in message
> news:<40C3BCDF.A0B730E7@hate.spam.net>...
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> How do you gits plan to run your elevator, if and when? You cannot
> >> >> >> string an electrical conductor along the beanstalk - every time the
> >> >> >> magnetosphere burped you'd roman candle. Gonna use... rockets?
> >> >> >
> >> >> >Free electron lasers supply power to the climber. The climber
> >> >> >converts this to mechanical energy.
> >> >> >
> >> >> Ahh, it is a buzzword powered device. How ingenious:-)
>
> >> >:-)
> >> >
> >>
> >> Wouldn't that be dangerous? Isn't one of the problems with the
> >> space elevator cable vibration thereof?
> >>
> >> (The "free electron laser" is an interesting notion, although it
> >> probably should be called an "easer", instead, to be consistent.
> >> Basically, a coherent light wave in a laser is generated as a
> >> beam coming out one side of the laser; why not a coherent wave
> >> of electrons from an easer? However, there's the little issue
> >> of how these free electrons make it all the way out of the
> >> troposphere; there's a lot of molecules in the way.)
> >
> >For the latter issue, I'm told that adaptive optics will resolve that issue.
> >
> I'm getting the feeling that you're talking past each other.
Seems that way. Sorry about that - so much for trying to work and
usenet at the same time.
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