Thanks Mark.
After some discussions with Hal Finney, and some more involved
calculations, I've developed a more final concept for the Lorrey Loop.
Its rather convoluted, but actually a lot more feasible and basic than
many beanstalk concepts out there. The attached diagram shows the path
that the cars would take, relative to the orbiting GEO stations. NOTE:
THe cars in an absolute sense will be following a classic Hohmann
elliptical transfer orbit, which when viewed from a GEO station, would
appear to cross over itself as the cars angular velocity drops below
that of the rotating earth.
With consideration for Kennita, I'm using a GIF format in greyscale, so
its less than 20 K, which should load easily (thats the best I could do
to get sufficient resolution).
According to my caculations, this concept should fly.....
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