<DIV><BR><BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: Gary Miller <aiguy@comcast.net><BR>Date: Thursday, March 27, 2008 6:18<BR>Subject: Re: [ExI] Space Elevator (Going Down)<BR>To: 'ExI chat list' <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><BR><BR>> <BR>> Kevin Freels asked : <BR>> <BR>> >> Sorry if I missed the obvious, but are you referring to <BR>> somethingsimilar to a canon? A long tunnel dug into the ground <BR>> stuffed with a<BR>> projectile and a nuke behind it? >><BR>> <BR>> <BR>> No the whole objective of the space elevator was to create a <BR>> transport so we<BR>> could beam energy back to earth.<BR>> <BR>> My idea was that due to to the difficulties of going up into <BR>> space right<BR>> now, we focus our resources on developing innovative energy<BR>> source here on Earth or perhaps below the Earths surface hence <BR>> (Going Down).<BR>> <BR>> Solar is already being worked to death and coupled with <BR>> nanotechnology to<BR>> improve cell efficiencies shows real promise.<BR>> <BR>> Wind Farms are increasing steadily but looks to be a bit player <BR>> with no<BR>> hopes of dramatically increasing it's efficiency.<BR>> <BR>> Tidal generation has promise but is limited in where it can be done.<BR>> <BR>> Hydroelectric is good but we'd need some megaengineering to dig <BR>> channelsfrom the Great Lakes across the midwest and build <BR>> hydroelectric plants along<BR>> the way. We may need to do that eventually anyway to <BR>> increase the water<BR>> supply to states in the midwest but we will be fighting the <BR>> ecologists and<BR>> states that border the Great Lakes all the way.<BR>> <BR>> My idea was to just bury the nuke deep enough that upon <BR>> detonation we create<BR>> artificial Geothermal energy sources here on Earth.<BR>> <BR>> <BR> </DIV>
<DIV>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! </DIV>
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