Space Elevator Roadmap Version 1.0 Public Beta Liftport Group is happy to announce that we have (some might say at long last) produced a draft roadmap for...
... What I understand is that as much the CNT are 30 cm long, and they are strong, they are long enought to be utilized. This because the Van der Waals forces...
That roadmap is a thing of beauty. Aesthetically pleasing information. Also, exciting. Good work folks. ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
... Positioning enought SPS in GEO could do the trick, IMHO. It would need to place a ring 1.000 KM high around the Earth to hide the Sun from the Equator...
Although there is much to discuss about the roadmap, I think the real eye-opener has to be the 13 year delay of final construction. Given the fact that LANL...
Bias Warning - I work at Liftport. There is more to building a space elevator than having the material we need for the ribbon. We don't have the legal aspects...
In my view it is a bad mistake for Liftport to push the target date like that. It is completely contrary to the spirit of the countdown, and will put a lot of...
... Should we continue to maintain that we can finish the project by date X when we know the date is X+13 years? What happens X rolls around and we're 13...
We all should know that innovators often have to trade time for money. With massive funding this timeline could be made much shorter. Let's just blame these...
Brad Walsh
epibeemie@...
Oct 11, 2006 1:46 pm
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... If you really _know_ the date is X+13 years, you'd be right. If you think the roadmap, good as it may be, accomplishes that, you are deluding yourselves. ...
2031 is not a target date. As soon as possible is the target. ~2030 is a product of a study at what needs to be done for the SE and estimates for timeframes of...
Politics and perception are both critical. The "roadmap" and x- prizes are both practical as well as poitical: People have to believe the goal is achievable...
... Is that really true? I remember seeing a pre-Edwards document that had a fairly detailed roadmap to that other space elevator, remember, the one with the...
... Beware absolutist statements. The world is seldom so cut and dried. They are, almost invariably, wrong. Providing a timeline might also embolden venture...
... It is likely hat his accomplishments dwarf mine - I am what I am, and never pretended to be important to anyone but my family and employer. Nor was it my...
... the ... I did not mean you, as in yourself, but you, as in Liftport. Even so, I did not mean to imply any judgement of competence or achievement, just the...
... Point taken. But note that Laine launched Liftport shortly he and Edwards parted ways after the demise of Highlift. Going by memory he contacted me about...
If anyone from Liftport or any other organizational effort is interested in drafting a document charting potential R + D avenues towards 40 GPa CNTs, I'm...
Space Elevator Competition Extended One Day Bart Leahy Special to SPACE.com SPACE.com Las Cruces, New Mexico -- Space elevators might be the next big...
Last time I heard wind loading is thought to be a real, significant problem for the real space elevator; simulations show that the elevator actually tends to...
Am I understanding this correctly? One more year, and still no carbon nanotubes in the tether competition? Is there simply not any of any strength available,...
Extending that line of questioning out a little bit: What is Brad Edwards doing? Now he has yet another carbon nanotube start-up? When will we see anything out...
Anyone else notice the article in September's Scientific American about getting energy from high-altititude wind, including the jet stream? They show a...
The NSTI Nanotech 2007 is calling for papers. I wonder if the subject of SE will come up? http://www.nsti.org/Nanotech2007/symposia/Composites_Interfaces.html...
Though I didn't read the article, I think the idea goes back to the 1950s. The problem from then until recently was the weight of the tether, which needed to...
... 1950s. The problem from then until recently was the weight of the tether, which needed to be 15000 - 45000 ft or so long and have a lot of tensile...
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