To create the elevator shaft or tether to our Space Station, we first of all need to construct the strongest and most durable material know to man.
In short we are talking about a material strong enough to carry up to than 50,000 times its own weight. This material also needs a substantial degree of flexibility as well as a range of other factors.
While this all may sound like fantasy at the moment scientist have in fact developed a potential solution to this problem. Click the button to find out more.
It's a challenge...
Once we do have the material strength problem solved, however, we then have the issues facing engineering, design and functionality. I know I have my preferences as to how this may be tackled but, needless to say, this is one of the major areas of the project where an expert team is crucial.
Once again it all relies on funding but then that’s exactly what we are here for.
At present the most promising option as the linked article explains, is Graphene.
Graphene is a fantastic 2D material. It is 200 times stronger than steel, transparent, flexible and conducts electricity better than copper. However, graphene can only be made commercially in little bits with the current technology.
Take for example, the ‘200 times stronger than steel’ property. You can’t make full use of that at the moment because the current commercial state is to produce graphene from graphite using the top-down method. This makes graphene as nano plates that are typically 400 nanometers long. To give an idea of how small this, look at the edge of a piece of copier paper, which is 100 microns (100,000 nanometers) thick. You could fit 250 of these graphene nanoplates across the edge of that piece of paper.
That’s all great but then you have to stick these plates together and we start getting into some real high tech areas of development.
Read through the attached article and do a bit of a search yourself.
Once we can afford to do the research, its a small jump to our next EUREKA moment.
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