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The energy cost for the launching of masses is correct, question is how much operation of the system will cost.
You would need superconductors for a levitated maglevs to bring the energy to the parts which are in the air.
But if you accelerate before on the ground, then you can spread the system out along the magnets.
One problem is you will have to position the evacuated tube very precisely so that it matches the flight path of the bullet.
Overall a good idea, also for launching raw materials at a low price for in space refining.
we will carry only vacuum tube in air. magnetic catapult will NOT be carried by balloons. acceleration will be done in ground (inside of a mountain), bullet will ascend free flight mode in vacuum tunnel.
stocking nuclear waste is very expensive today.
i think nuclear waste market size is 100-150 billion dollar present. only USA has 40.000 ton of nuclear waste stocked. Russian will earn 20 billion$ to store nuclear waste of other countries.
as a summary structure cost is not very important because in very short term, investor will earn it back.
http://www.bellona.no/en/international/ … ...56.html
The Greens criticized very much that Russia should not let itself be bribed into becoming the nuclear dustbin of the World (even if the envisaged depositing of 20.000 tons of nuclear waste would earn it 21 billion dollars). Moreover as the import is supposed to be managed by the totally untrustworthy Ministry for Nuclear Energy where widespread corruption has been detected by the Russian Anti-corruption committee.
http://www.anti-atom.de/akwruss.htm]htt … kwruss.htm
he Russian government has submitted a portfolio of bills to the Russian parliament aimed at boosting the imports of foreign spent fuel for storage and reprocessing. The bills would allow Russia to earn at least US$20 billion by importing up to 20.000 tonnes of foreign spent nuclear fuel over the next 10-20 years, with the income being used to finance the development of Russia's own infrastructure of domestic spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste. A subsequent report suggested that the Duma had postponed debate on the issue indefinitely.
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