[AR] Re: Space elevators... was: Ozone layer
- From: Henry Spencer <hspencer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Arocket List <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:48:52 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 21 Sep 2016, John Dom wrote:
The part of the space elevator/bean stalk concept enthusiasts usually
brush under the carpet is it's horribly slow ascend speed, especially to
GEO. Have ideas for ascending faster come forward in the mean time?
Vertical maglev trains perhaps?
That's undoubtedly what you'd want to do in the long run, when the system
got big enough to carry passengers -- people are so impatient. :-) But a
load of powersat parts doesn't *care* if it spends two weeks in transit.
The important thing is not how fast the climbers move, but how often they
depart -- nobody is going to build a beanstalk that can only carry one
climber at a time.
Henry
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