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TrevorM

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From: Canada

Registered: 2004-05-16

Posts: 5

Re: Space Elevators.....How Soon?

Two weeks actually and about 60% of the trip will be through the van allen belts in some way or another.

It's a problem.

GCNRevenger

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From: Earth

Registered: 2003-10-14

Posts: 6,056

Re: Space Elevators.....How Soon?

If you can only make one trip a month using the cable, then you might as well spend the elevator money on making regular rockets better, or making Shuttle-II.

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TrevorM

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From: Canada

Registered: 2004-05-16

Posts: 5

Re: Space Elevators.....How Soon?

I've been looking around for solutions and I found this:

http://www.tethers.com/HiVOLT.html]http … iVOLT.html
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/r … 20916.html

deagleninja

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From: USA

Registered: 2004-04-28

Posts: 376

Re: Space Elevators.....How Soon?

Ah Trevor, thanks for the links. I was wondering myself if it wouldn't be possible to generate a magnetic field above the 'cars' to push these dangerous charged particles out of the way.

And Bill, please don't be mad, I know you are pointing out that a space elevator isn't practical (profitable) for aspiring buisnesspeople, but Trev raises a good point. We must look at how much cheaper a space elevator would be compared to conventional rockets. More importantly, today's rockets are fantastic when they don't use up their fuel escaping Earth's gravity well.

Also, assuming that the demand is there to use our SE like O'Hare, feeding and taking care of our travelers can offset the cost of the SE. Make the tickets cheap, but charge them $10 for a pack of peanuts