Comments on: Maybe on my 51st birthday I'll take a ride… http://opdahls.com/2006/03/09/maybe-on-my-51st-birthday-ill-takea-ride/ realtimeanthropology Tue, 04 Oct 2011 03:17:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: bdunbar http://opdahls.com/2006/03/09/maybe-on-my-51st-birthday-ill-takea-ride/comment-page-1/#comment-9 bdunbar Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:24:02 +0000 http://www.opdahls.com/?p=21#comment-9 I am glad you are keeping an open mind on the subject, Peter, and thinking for yourself. Keep in mind that when add 'something' to the bottom it does act to drag it out of orbit - bu this is balanced by the counterweight on the other end. I am glad you are keeping an open mind on the subject, Peter, and thinking for yourself.

Keep in mind that when add ‘something’ to the bottom it does act to drag it out of orbit – bu this is balanced by the counterweight on the other end.

]]> By: Peter http://opdahls.com/2006/03/09/maybe-on-my-51st-birthday-ill-takea-ride/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Peter Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:45:40 +0000 http://www.opdahls.com/?p=21#comment-8 I've been thinking more about this, and the technical problems are really outstanding. The amount of energy required to keep the damn counterweight in a geosynchronus orbit alone is astounding. Any force at all on the cable, whether by wind, dew collecting on it and adding additional mass, the elevator and its content, etc., acts to pull the counterweight back to earth by slowing it down. Absolute ridiculousness. I’ve been thinking more about this, and the technical problems are really outstanding. The amount of energy required to keep the damn counterweight in a geosynchronus orbit alone is astounding. Any force at all on the cable, whether by wind, dew collecting on it and adding additional mass, the elevator and its content, etc., acts to pull the counterweight back to earth by slowing it down. Absolute ridiculousness.

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