From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@tpk.net)
Date: Sat Jan 04 1997 - 15:00:46 MST
Mark Grant wrote:
>
> On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Michael Lorrey wrote:
>
> > Putting some old Thunkthussp onto the problem, I concieved another type
> > of construction, that we could call a Lorrey Loop, if it hasn't already
> > been thought of yet by someone else. (besides, it would really truck
> > too!) ;)
>
> This, or something very similar to it, is in 'Man and the Planets' by
> Duncan Lunan. Don't have my copy handy. That book includes many
> interesting methods of travelling around the solar system.
>
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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