[ExI] Space Elevator (Going Down)

[Kevin Freels]

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From: Gary Miller <aiguy at comcast.net>
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008 6:18
Subject: Re: [ExI] Space Elevator (Going Down)
To: 'ExI chat list' <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>

> 
> Kevin Freels  asked : 
> 
>  >> Sorry if I missed the obvious, but are you referring to 
> somethingsimilar to a canon? A long tunnel dug into the ground 
> stuffed with a
> projectile and a nuke behind it?  >>
>  
>  
> No the whole objective of the space elevator was to create a 
> transport so we
> could beam energy back to earth.
>  
> My idea was that due to to the difficulties of going up into 
> space right
> now, we focus our resources on developing innovative energy
> source here on Earth or perhaps below the Earths surface hence 
> (Going Down).
>  
> Solar is already being worked to death and coupled with 
> nanotechnology to
> improve cell efficiencies shows real promise.
>  
> Wind Farms are increasing steadily but looks to be a bit player 
> with no
> hopes of dramatically increasing it's efficiency.
>  
> Tidal generation has promise but is limited in where it can be done.
>  
> Hydroelectric is good but we'd need some megaengineering to dig 
> channelsfrom the Great Lakes across the midwest and build 
> hydroelectric plants along
> the way.   We may need to do that eventually anyway to 
> increase the water
> supply to states in the midwest but we will be fighting the 
> ecologists and
> states that border the Great Lakes all the way.
>  
> My idea was to just bury the nuke deep enough that upon 
> detonation we create
> artificial Geothermal energy sources here on Earth.
>  
>   
 
OK. Thanks for clearing that up. I must have missed the first part and thought the goal here was to get out of the gravity well. I couldn't quite string together how you were planning to get into orbit by tunneling into the earth and detonating nukes! 
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