jdwill
2008-08-21 13:00:38
That’s what the carbon nanotube tech is about, a cable/ribbon that could be strong enough. The stress of a line from the surface to a tethered orbital object would be tremendous. But that’s what a space elevator is all about.
We may not be that far away from this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
Not sure why a vertical electrical transmission line would have significantly different problems that current horizontal ones.








