Re: Can we now build the space elevator?
From: Ian Stirling (root_at_mauve.demon.co.uk)
Date: 08/29/04
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Date: 29 Aug 2004 21:06:44 GMT
In sci.physics eagleson2004123@yahoo.com wrote:
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> The vibration resonance, must, be damped somehow. And to use
> lines like guywires from the earth is required.
You can damp the resonances, at least some of them, by moving the
anchor point a bit, winching in and out the tether at both the
bottom and the counterweight.
>
> So in effect a flexible tower must be built.
>
> And then the tower must be supported from above,
> because the light weight material would collapse
> otherwise.
>
> And to get the power from above means the earths weight
> and the satilites weight must be considered.
Why would there be power from above?
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