Why not use the power naturally developed in the cable? ... see the NASA
teather experiment no details :-)


"Makhno" wrote in message
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The current answer to the last question isn't magnets but .. lasers.
Free Electron lasers beam power to the climber, which converts the
energy into mechanical energy (wheels or treads). IIRC, a FEL has
been designed that can do the job.

There's a lot of traffic in this thread about powering the climber. Why
can't it simply have a diesel/gasoline engine with its own oxygen supply?
Or run electrical cables up the elevator to power an electric motor?

Why make things more complicated than they need to be?