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August 20, 2008 - 5:34 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-08-21 12:50:08

Tethered space elevator may have fundamental issues with electric potential difference. IOW, it is quite likely that it would be a rather long lightning rod with a propensity of being severed and any elevator cargo fried to crisp, let alone pulled back by gravity in a free fall, once the tether backbone is gone.