Re: beanstalks (was Re: Metallic hydrogen ...)

From: E.R. (economic_refugee_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/07/04


Date: 6 Jun 2004 23:07:21 -0700

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.

This reply has been posted here before, fwiw.



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