On 6/10/2018 10:16 PM, Doc O'Leary wrote:
For your reference, records indicate that
Jeff Findley wrote:


Hope for bigger things. I fully believe that, for a society to be
advanced enough to make a space elevator project realistic, it’s value
would be more incremental than revolutionary.



A space elevator is not possible in reality. It is a running joke in
engineering land.

calculate the mechanical loads.

calculate the weight of copper cables, and the mechanical cables

calculate the weight of the tower, and estimate the sizes of tower
sections to support the weight at different levels

estimate the weight of the electric motor 150 HP

going to use a counterweight ?


just ballpark it, assume 0.1 m/sec and 2000 # weight of cargo, and
100,000 foot high.