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Re: starship-design: Space Elevators Maybe Closer To Reality Than Imagined
In a message dated 8/1/03 7:25:05 PM, lparker@cacaphony.net writes:
>On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 21:00, KellySt@aol.com wrote:
>
>> The power would be worth more.
>>
>> Wonder how they generate it without degrading their orbit?
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>
>Funny, but I don't think the article specified where the extra energy
>came from. Perhaps it is like the Space Power tether experiments that
>the Shuttle did a few years ago.
>
>Lee
In those the shutles kinetic energy is converted to power. Effectivly the
teather acts like a generator wire moving through the earths magnetic fields.
Do that with this and you'ld drag the teather back and down.
That would be bad.
;)