PROJECT "LIQUID UNIVERSE"
The Gateway to the Sky
PROJECT "LIQUID UNIVERSE"
PROJECT "LIQUID UNIVERSE"
PROJECT "LIQUID UNIVERSE"
.It will be the new portal for humanity to enter space on a daily basis.
We will be able to hoist our cargo to space, the soil and seeds to grow in distant space colonies and will enable us to substitute the space shuttle.
The overall system here presented will be much more economical for NASA to develop, will not require massive amounts of fuel to thrust steel into space, and is a more sensible, more economically viable and easily attainable way for every man to access space. It can be produced on a mass industrial scale, allowing for various "Gateways to the Sky" in multiple countries around the world. It will occupy a small area of actual physical soil, and will not require complex building permits to be erected into space. It will allow for the new cities in space.
It will be supported by The Global Ring, and will also be created by a series of interconnected arch shapes, with these being supported also by a central shaft, the ring and secondary balloons. The main structure is the central vertical shaft supported by the global ring. The central shaft will be fixed at the ground and go vertically up. The central shaft is connected to the ground and to the global ring.
It is the celestial earth ring.
The lateral access shoots will follow the path of an arch, with intersecting arches as described and illustrated further below. The lateral arched access portals will remain in place. They will provide access to outer space.
The central shafts will make use of pressure differentials to pull the elevators up to the top. This pressure differential can also be used at the top, as a propulsion system. The pressure can be sucked up to the top from the bottom. When reaching the top in compression chambers, it generates the thrust for propulsion. This thrust can also be complemented with small jet engines, that power the horizontal transportation systems that will be interconnected out in space.
People will always be able to ascend or descent from the cities in the sky, as there will be multiple access portals in different locations, that are interconnected.
The access portals will glow in the dark to avoid collisions of airplanes. They will be made also of synthetic plastic type components and thus the entire structure will be lighter in weight, less expensive and quicker to produce, compared to current alternatives under development.
The central access will be for heavy loads and the arch multi-colored access gates will be for human access, by the means of light-weight elevators. The arch structures will be made of synthetic materials and be light in weight. They will be rectangular in section.
The entire arch structures are allowed to be flexible, so they can oscillate in the winds as needed, and the balloons can also oscillate in position and height, to allow for movement of the arches.
The tops of the arches will be fixed to the central shaft, so the arch structures can sway in the middle sections. but are fixed on the ground and at the top, allowing people to enter and exit at fixed points.
The global ring will support floating suspended cities, laboratories and a suspended transportation system.
A diagram of the global ring and lateral arch access portals is shown below.
In the last section below, the global ring is illustrated in further detail.
The image on the right can be seen at -->>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Geostat.gif
It is an image of the geostationary orbit of traditional satellites.
The global ring will operate at an altitude much lower then "geostationary orbit" because the ring is being suspended by the orbiting bodies at low altitude in relation to traditional satellites. The result is a much clearer communication channel!
The arches and balloon system will be able to access high altitudes, yet missing some distance from the space ring. The central shaft will hoist people and equipment the remaining distance between the highest altitude the balloons reach, the top of the arches, and the space ring, which remains in space year round.
The balloons will also be used to maintain and repair both the central shaft and the arched shoots, when needed. They will also remove people from the shoots, in the event of emergencies. They will carry the people over to the central shoot, where they can be quickly lifted or brought back down to earth.
Below is a large view of the arched shoots, the central access towers, the horizontal transportation system, and the orbital bodies, supporting the suspended ring :
Space craft will also carry people to other earth locations and between the access portals.
By horizontally connecting these access points, we have a new terrestrial mass transportation system. People will be able to travel fast, cheaply and reach for the stars.
The docking stations will be connected to space labs, to further space located docking stations, and these will enable multiple exchange routes. Information will flow through space with our new Project Liquid Universe data transmission system. The docking stations will harbor small shops, small laboratories and and act as re-supply stations.
This central shaft will also continue out into space and connect with space stations. It will carry passengers at high speed out into space to reach space stations and areas that are adequately climate controlled. It will be, so to speak, a high speed shoot or a celestial umbilical cord. These umbilical cords and vertical stations will be connected to space stations, and these in turn, will be connected to other vertical access shafts, and allow people to travel horizontally at high speeds, between the access shafts, in the same type of "horizontal travel chambers", except these will be horizontal and follow a curvilinear path in-line with the curvature of the earth. There will be light-weight plastic component seats inside the horizontal shoots, in enclosed capsules, with all the comfort of travel. The shoots will be vacuums, to create no air resistance. They will be divided into chambers. They will exist inside larger shoots filled with air. This way, when a passenger needs to stop, the zone is isolated, filled with air, and he awaits in the parallel chambers, until proceeding in his journey. There will be rest stops along the way, along the horizontal travel chambers in space. These will allow people to travel at very high speeds, to reach other earth coordinates and other space stations, and then either proceed to space, or return to earth at other global locations.
This project is technically feasible, economically viable, and will be realized in a relatively VERY SHORT TIME at a fraction of the cost of the current systems under deployment or development,
Just imagine these colossal vertical access systems existing all over the globe. They will be seen for thousands of miles and be the biggest outdoor banner ever seen on planet earth. They will be multi-colored and provide millions with fantastic light and laser shows. They will be used to promote a hundred thousand dreams.
This gateway to the sky will become real and it will enable man to explore space in a way never before possible.It will enable multiple space stations at intervals, so man can travel large distances in space. It will allow for docking stations, where the space-ships carry people around and back to the central areas to return to earth.
They carry the power to make the space shuttle obsolete. Put a big X across the image of the space shuttle then if you wish.
The spaceships will make use of the magnetic system to bounce themselves around planets and gain speed as they travel to remote locations, riding on the waves of magnetic propulsion and the synergy developed by bouncing off larger bodies, using the gravitational field to accelerate and then shift their course into the galaxy.
Their internal engines, by making use of gravitational cancellation possible by the intense magnetic field, will be able to levitate and invert their internal fields at will, to flow on the waves of gravitational attraction and bounce off the positive and negative poles of planets, to follow their sinuous path over the surface of bodies. They distort our compasses and antiquated equipments by their strong magnetic field. This "alien technology" is actually within the reach of mankind. We are being observed and are now observing the change.
This vertical access system can already be seen on international news, so to speak. It can and will happen. This will be one of the most fantastic bridges the world has ever seen.
We would like to work with serious partners, to help us develop this. Together, as a Liquid Universe Project, we guarantee the exclusive right to intellectual property of these ideas and others we are developing. These ideas, being now published, become an issue of intellectual property. These are ideas, systems, and demonstrate the power of global connectivity. They are not promoting one company, but call for global action and participation.
Man, fearful and wonderfully made, creates a new liquid galaxy of energy and momentum, where the technology of change brings a new universe to our door step,
We have only just began. Thousands of new structural developments to follow,
Time to change,
The Power of Global Cooperation.
This is the dawn of a new era of technological achievement.
Architecture will progress by leaps and bounds as we project these ideas into the existing reality here and now.
The cities of the future are just a shot away,
A small step for man, a giant leap for mankind,
Seen by the world, observed by angels, supported by a galaxy of knowledge.
Ideas that are not absurd, they are easily realizable. Let's bring it to happen, here and now.
Hollywood ? Get ready. The stage has been set.
Soon we will reach for the stars. All our dreams are possible. We need only to believe.
A global force so strong, there will be no one to resist it.
We are here to help you build your dream,
The power of global cooperation.
Welcome to the journey.
Project Liquid Universe
Further Considerations on the New Gateway to the Sky
We were surprised yesterday (Sept.17,2007, a days after posting our system above, that there are technologies being developed which are astoundingly similar to our post, and this had not been fully explored yet.
The technology is -->>
Is actually amazing, as we had no contact with this, or idea of it, when we conceived of the space ring system !
According to this site -->>
"The LiftPort Space Elevator
What is a space elevator?"
""A Space Elevator, or more specifically the LiftPort Space Elevator, will consist of a ribbon made of a very strong and very light material, carbon nanotubes, anchored to the Earth's surface at the LiftPort Station with the other end reaching into space. By making the ribbon long enough, and attaching a small satellite as counterweight, the Earth's rotation will provide enough centrifugal effect to overcome the pull of gravity and keep the ribbon taut. The LiftPort Space Elevator will then provide a permanent bridge between earth and space. Elevator cars will be robotic "lifters" which will climb the ribbon to deliver cargo and eventually people to orbit or beyond.""
At first glance, I believed they were copying our idea. But how could they copy our idea so fast, I thought, if I just posted it yesterday? In reality, their system is almost the same as ours. Many aspects of the technology are the same. Many ingredients are missing, however. There is one major difference also. Their system is held by being connected to the ground. Ours is not. Their system will not be able to lift heavy weights as easily and could fall to the earth. Our system is able to lift very large weights from space, with no support from the ground!
Further the system we created here provides for -->>
1. Replacing satellites. As even the best polar satellites circle the earth at an lower altitude of about 850 km, by placing our ring much below this range, we have a much better way to photograph the earth in detail!
2. Will function as a global communication system. All the satellites can be receiving and sending simultaneous data to each other, and to the earth, operating at a distance MUCH closer to the earth in relation to traditional or polar satellites!
3. Functions as the new internet information channel and information sending platform. The information can be sent down to the earth using our new proprietary technology that does not depend on satellites and does not depend on the internet as we know it. It will function based on the new internet and operating with the new computer systems we have developed.
4. Functions as a global transportation system to multiple earth points.
5. Functions as a continuous space station.
6. Functions as a pad for solar collectors.
7. Generators producing energy extracted from the centrifugal rotation of the large orbiting bodies. The orbiting bodies also can make use of solar winds and solar collectors also to generate some of their own thrust.
8. A vertical lift mechanism.
9. Functions as a model for space stationed cities and generators.
It is curious, though, to see a big team of inventors for years working on something we created " in a few nano-seconds" , so to speak, with no knowledge of their ideas. They are a group of 4 companies, who are together working for years to develop ideas we come up with in a few minutes and developed by our group coordinator in an hour or just a few hours, to do the diagrams etc.
The space lift system merely keeps the space lift in the air. Our system is able to support heavy weights!
Nothing will fall to earth, even if the weight of the cargo exceeds the centrifugal balance. This, because, our system is allowed to sway some in space. This sway will be minimal, even with loads that greatly exceed the recommended, this because it is a global ring, and the forces on all ends of the planet keep it in an average position. Now, it can be built only with high tension cables, and as many as needed to guarantee the stability of the system. We can add as many cables as we need to, to guarantee the structural stability !
In our system, something is not just being "lifted to the sky". The balance of speed is being achieved in a unique new way before never done! It is a revolutionary idea to suspend cities in space, using the kitecnics of masses in motion and centrifugal forces as counter-weights to gravity, to allow us to suspend cities around planets!
Why would one want to occupy the moon ? It is barren! Now, if we could anchor our cities to planets, they will not simply drift into space, we have a fixed reference point, and can be more easily connected to the earth and space stations. We can extract elements we need from planets, and conduct our experiments using this technology.
Nasa also has developed it's own version of a "space elevator" -->>
""Basically, a big long cable tied to the equator of earth, with a rock at the end in geosynchronous orbit. People could then climb the cable and get into outer space cheaply.""
This is probably the most objective site on the issues of why their ideas may or may not work.
""What is the timetable?
The timetable is 50 years after everyone stops laughing.""
So in effect, NASA's plan also brings a complexity of issues that is mind boggling and will take too long to resolve! Come on NASA, why so much complexity, when it can be achieved in a more efficient manner, as has already been proposed under this system posted here at design community?
Further, the system being proposed here is not a space elevator! It is a new genuine unique idea not even based on all this research of similar systems. The research is coming now, after the system was already proposed!
This is probably the best post on the subject -->>
But Mr. Buckys ring won't work either -->>
Fuller Ring Bridge
"A structure suggested by BuckminsterFuller in 1951, consisting of an artificial ring built in space above the earth's equator. This could be done to connect the a bunch of SpaceElevators."
"Not the same as RingWorld, which is a ring surrounding a star and is thus much larger".
"This would obviously only be useful to connect SpaceElevators if it were rotating geosynchronously.... which goes without saying."
"The structure would have minimum stress if attached to the SpaceElevators exactly at the altitude of geosynchronous satellites, roughly 1/3 of the way up. But perhaps other locations closer to or further from the earth might be possible.
What's the purpose of this structure?
Speculation: In theory, it takes less energy to ride the elevator up to the bridge, take the moving sidewalk over to the next elevator, then take the elevator down, than it does to fly directly in an airplane.
We already have hundreds of tons of communication satellites in geosynchronous orbit, and "we" put more up every year. If we keep putting more and more stuff into that narrow band, eventually it will become packed solid. Voila, the FullerRingBridge. No SpaceElevator necessary.
Although that would definitely be one of the more expensive ways of going about building one
And once you connected them together the resulting structure would become unstable, start oscillating, touch the atmosphere and disintegrate (if it hadn't through tidal stresses already). Maybe the space elevators would anchor it? Solid rings rotating around large gravitational fields don't work. -- TomAyerst (oops, that's already been covered in RingWorld)
This is pure speculation, but would it be more stable if you put it just above geosynch orbit, so there's a constant, slight (or not-so-slight) pull outwards by centripetal force? Or, for that matter, put the structure just below geosynch orbit and let gravity bow it inwards, creating the world's biggest suspension bridge using the space elevators as the pylons. Oh, and here's an interesting issue... how would the Moon's tidal forces affect such a structure?
Once you got the bridge done, you won't need anymore geosync satellites, you can just mount another antenna anywhere on the bridge! As long as their separation is wide enough for the ground station to resolve."
What the author suggested, thus has not been fully postulated into a working system, until now. We are here to prove it can be done!
According to the text above -->>
""This would obviously only be useful to connect SpaceElevators if it were rotating geosynchronously.... which goes without saying.""
This won't work either, the entire ring does not need to rotate! Come on, you technology geeks!
These guys are trying to create a ring by connecting satellites, but can't decide where to place the ring. The ring can be exactly where it needs to be. All we need are the counter-weights, which can be placed anywhere way below geosynch orbit, separated from the ring as we already proposed, and Voila.
Further stated -->>
""We already have hundreds of tons of communication satellites in geosynchronous orbit, and "we" put more up every year. If we keep putting more and more stuff into that narrow band, eventually it will become packed solid. Voila, the FullerRingBridge. No SpaceElevator necessary.""
Of course no space elevator is needed. This Mr. Bucky got right. But he failed to consolidate it into a working system, as his proposition was not in tune with current technology. So this goes to show how a brilliant idea must also be in tune with the times.
We just found these posts above today, Sept.18,2007, after our system was published above, two days ago! So this proves further it has not been done, and that the proposal is grounded on some of the most incredible physics and theoreticians in existence, without any of them being consulted. We had no knowledge of Fuller's proposals or these sites above, until today, as the research is being done.
""Oh, and here's an interesting issue... how would the Moon's tidal forces affect such a structure?""""
This has already been resolved as well. The ring is an oscillating ring, as it is not connected to the earth. Therefore, just as the ocean, small oscillations as caused by the moon will be a natural consequence of this oscillation. The same for the variable loads, which even though calculated, may vary from opposite earth positions. This is no problem also. The eccentric forces created by the orbiting counter-weights will provide more then enough support needed.
Further, the sci-fy books address these issues -->>
"KimStanleyRobinson put space elevators in the Mars trilogy (see RedGreenBlueMars), at both Mars and Earth. The anchor mass/station for the first elevator, built at Mars, was named "Clarke". In both Clarke and Robinson's stories, the Mars elevators had the problems of avoiding one or both of Phobos and Deimos, which was done by inducing carefully timed oscillations in the cable. At Earth we might have a problem with smaller man-made space junk.
Charles Sheffield a former president of the American Astronautical Society wrote The Web Between the Worlds, a novel about the first SpaceElevator. The book came out at the same time as The Fountains of Paradise. It holds up quite well in comparison with Clarke's book. Clarke wrote an introduction to Sheffield's book.
The Mars trilogy by KimStanleyRobinson also explores what would happen if the cable fell down. (I'd like to hear more about what happens WhenSpaceElevatorsFall?. From the FAQ at http://www.liftport.com/faqs/index.php?fuseAction=faq&faqID=21#92: "The ribbon is light (7.5 kg/km) so, any pieces that fall to earth will slow down, in the air, to about the same terminal velocity as that of an open newspaper page falling.")
The cable is sabotaged and falls in Mercury by BenBova? (ISBN 0765304120 )."
All these sci-fy books still got it wrong. They kept thinking of a vertical cable!
Even Bucky, when proposing a horizontal cable or ring, did not consider the plan as we proposed, and it is absurd to anchor such a Bucky ring to space elevators! Our ring can float is space with no earth connection!
Further applications of the global ring -->>
According to -->>
"From Space.com: The Pentagon’s National Security Space Office (NSSO) may begin a study in the near future on the possibility of using satellites to collect solar energy for use on Earth, according to Defense Department officials."
We don't need satellites.
We can use it as a platform for solar collectors. We can then use all the energy collected to supply the space city. The energy collected from the momentum of the large orbiting bodies can also be collected. We have established that to maintain large bodies in motion we will expend less energy then is produced by the synergy of their rotation. This can be understood in the example of a bicycle, where the pressure applied to a smaller internal ring, in a sense, creates a speed and force stronger then that originally applied. Or for example, to get a or airplane car moving requires greater energy then to keep it moving at a constant speed. So we can maintain them in rotation with small rockets that will use less energy then the use of the magnetic energy that can be extracted from their movement along the tracks.
Further, we can also create space based generators using this technology. These can be floating in space.
Further, we can create floating cities that rotate as well and generate their own energy in so doing. These cities can be as the rims of the motorcycle wheels. The architecture will thus be in the ring format. Further, we can also produce multiple rings that are connected and rotate around larger rings. The synergy of the movement of rings within rings will produce an even greater amount of energy. This is the energy that is produced to keep the planets in their orbit, so this technology has a tremendous energy application.
We wish also to engage people here to propose the architecture of the future, and work in a global sense together, bringing the greatest architectural minds together to develop this.
So everyone is completely lost, in effect, going the wrong direction.
It is high time we consolidate all this confusion into the new system as proposed.
Further developments on the Gateway to the Sky
The Rings
Three parallel connected rings that have multiple springs in the core encased in metal sliding chambers. The chambers can elongate or become shorter in length, according to the pressure applied to the rings. The rings will be further encased in inter-connected spheres of hard rubber type synthetic compounds. The interior of these spheres will contain axial spoke structural supports, that function as types of shock absorbers. These interconnected spheres will function as the external membrane to the inner core of rings. This external link of spheres will create a global chain. It will protect the inner rings from meteor damage.
The interior rings are able to elongate or shorten, as the inner core springs slide on tracks. According to the geo-distributed weights applied to the rings, they will thus change their vertical position and either grow or shorten in total circumference. This will allow them to shift some vertically as needed. As they shift their altitude position, the rotating connected spheres in orbit will also flow on a compressed path, thus accelerating somewhat in their spin. As the ring is de-compressed, under conditions of low cargo, the orbiting spheres will follow a wider path.
The main purpose of this composition is to create less tension in the high strength nano fibers that will compose the geo rings. The geo rings can be loaded to maximum capacity without over-stressing the rings by the composite of the orbiting eccentric forces and the loads of cargo being hoisted to space.
As there has been some confusion there is a need to explain how the ring and the arch systems function independently.
The ring system floats independently of the vertical access arches, and does not depend on them to maintain itself in space. They are two separate elements in the system.
Now, in this system, the arches are be supported by The Global Ring and secondarily by the balloons similar to the "cloud nine" type, distributed along their path. The central elevator as well is be supported by The Global Ring. The basic structure of the global ring is constructed of multiple steel cables. The global ring will also function as a structural support for the high speed horizontal transportation system in space. A diagram of the global ring, shown in more detail, is illustrated below.`
The ring will be supported by the orbit of the large satellite bodies, attached to the central ring with cables at intervals as illustrated below. These orbiting bodies will be large heavy satellite and communications equipment and some of the globes will be liquid. Thus, orbiting bodies can be substituted, when needed, for large globes of water. The water can be produced in space, by elevating materials into space to fabricate the water. The large orbiting satellite bodies will be all attached to the ring, and be on sliding cables. The eccentric momentum produced by their bodies will hold the ring in space. They will be moving at a good speed, perhaps 200-300 KM/Hr in relation to the rings. This will enable the ring to float in space to carry heavy loads and vertically hoist objects into space. The rings can fluctuate some in vertical position, depending on the load. The loads will be equal and distributed at opposite ends of the ring, in a way to maintain the rings in a stable position. The rings will be made with multiple rows of high strength steel cables. They will be reinforced and protected in sections, to allow the introduction of space structures in zones. The horizontal rings will harbor cities, with chambers divided into sections, so that if a section is taken out by a natural disaster, the chambers can be replaced. The rings will be double, in the event one ring is removed, the other will still support the entire structure. The rings will be separated by a distance greater then the largest heavenly earth bound object, providing double security in the event of a collision with a meteor.
There are more orbiting large mass bodies then needed to support the weights, so if some orbiting bodies or one of the rings is removed by an accident, the other ring and orbiting bodies will guarantee the stability of the structure. The space between the rings will be enclosed by plastic materials in chambers filled with oxygen. These chambers can be replaced as needed.
The horizontal transportation system will travel along these rings as well. The rings will remain in space permanently and can be maintained when needed. The orbiting objects will be placed in space with small rockets that maintain vertical and horizontal thrusters. The orbits of the large bodies will be used to generate all the electricity needed for the space stations and transportation system, as well as the vertical hoist systems and all the support equipment. Below is an image of the overall system, showing the rotating satellite objects supporting the rings, and the inner arched structures, on the ground at the lower positions, and approaching the ring at the top:
The arched portals make use of the atmospheric pressure differentials to suspend weights in space. They maintain inner chambers that have three galleries plus a full length lateral chamber as follows -->>
1. The lower gallery at the ground at atmospheric pressure. This lower gallery is allowed to expand in length all the way up to the top of the arches.
2. The middle gallery a decompression chamber. This will be the human elevator car.
3. The upper gallery a vacuum chamber. This vacuum is maintained in the upper portion all the way up.
4. Lateral chambers. These run from the ground all the way up and operate at ground pressure. They are used as regulatory valves and to re-fill the upper chambers with pressure.
Take for example, a barometer filled with mercury as an example, or take for example an inverted model of water pressure. The high pressure at the top where the water is pushes the water down at the bottom up to the same height. So using this same principle, the greater atmospheric pressure differentials between the ground points at the stratospheric points can be used to hoist weights vertically, if we maintain this ground pressure stable in the lower chambers all the way up.
The atmospheric pressure differentials between the ground pressure and upper stratosphere pressure will be placed in the lower and the upper chambers to pull the weight up vertically with no need for a heavy lift. Further, the pressure differential will maintain the lower part in compression and maintain the shape of the arch, as the elevator moves up, being lifted and carried by the pressure differentials, thus not exerting substantial weight on the arch. Any spill-over of weight is picked up by the balloons. The portions of the arch above the elevator do not have any weight in them until an elevator reaches their path. So the arches themselves need not support a large amount of weight. They carry only the people also. The elevating chambers in the arches are sucked up vertically by the vacuum and pressure differentials. So the balloons merely hold the arches in place and carry small amounts of weight. At the points lower to the ground, where more vertical thrust is needed, the pressure differential is the greatest. At this point the arch is vertical in position, so people move up vertically within the pressure differential chambers. As the people and objects move up the arches, the pressure differentials decrease, but so does the force of gravity, as they begin to exit the atmosphere. As the people reach the nearly horizontal portions of the arch, the atmospheric pressure up there will be low and also the gravity will be low. But the lower atmospheric pressure is maintained in the lower chamber, which now expands all the way up to the top behind the elevator cars, also expanding the lower arch into its full shape.
About a week after our group coordinator composed this arrangement, he found the following post on the LiftPort Group:
http://www.liftport.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,58/topic,770.0
"Inflatable SE
« on: August 08, 2007, 07:23:41 PM »
A 90KM high tower may make this possible with existing materials (Kevlar?)
Imagine a giant parade balloon being inflated, now instead of a gorilla imagine a simple cylinder 100 km long. If we tried to inflate that vertically it would just fall over, unless it had some way to stabilize itself. (or was slightly conical)..."
(Now you see why we chose the arch shape!)
"....If we can build a climber able to drag a second 100 km section up the first, and attach them together, we could inflate the SE up to 800 km. (or maybe we could just inflate a single 710 km section) That might be within reach of a tether built from the strongest material we can make now.
« Last Edit: August 12, 2007, 09:59:38 PM by Donald Rennie »" and
"The first stage would be a hollow tower (chimney) 20 km high with a base diameter of 20km, tapering rapidly. :)The top of the chimney might have a diameter as large as 201 meters. The inside of the chimney (atrium) could be 200 meters from the base to the top. Air-pressure inside this atrium would prevent wind-loading from causing the chimney to buckle.
The chimney would have to be strong enough to support, itself, a space junk detecting radar-station, an (optional) observation deck, and the second (inflatable) stage of the SE.
If the top of the chimney has a 200 meter diameter, that might allow enough taper for the inflatable part to support itself. Let's say it tapers from 200 meters to 1 meter at it's 800 km high top. Then we would only need a 34,966 km ribbon instead of a 35,786 km one, to reach geostationary orbit.
The advantages of all this extra expense, (aside from feasibility) are;
The chimney stage, is much stronger that a ribbon, an thus able to withstand wind-loading and lightning and maybe even small aircraft impacts. It effectively reaches out of the atmosphere (or 99% if it by weight), so the other stages do not need to handle those stresses."
We can see, from this discussions at this group, that a baloon supported horizontal platform is also possible! -->>
http://www.liftport.com/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,58/topic,772.0
and further -->>
"I'm not sure that the air does add weight. If it is continually moving upward, wouldn't the "friction" actually provide lift? In any case, it would add strength. Compare standing on an unopened pop-can, to standing on an empty one.
The atrium should actually have perfectly vertical walls, and thus be 200 meters in diameter from ground level to the top of the 90km high chimney. To achieve the required air-pressure, we might need 10 or more 200 meter diameter tunnels running horizontally through the base.
A base 20 km's wide would allow for the chimney walls to be 9,900 meters wide. Surely steel-re-enforced concrete that thick, would be able to take the pressure.
The inflatable section, could have walls one meter thick, at it's base, but these would taper rapidly. The inside of inflatable could be 200 meters wide at the base and 2 meters wide at the top, but this would be a straight line reduction, unlike the curved taper of the wall.
Surely someone with a structural engineering degree, could tell us if this were possible or not.
Yes it will cost much more, but it will also last much longer. It may also be the only possible way to build an SE."
These people placing postings on the Lift Group discussions are trying to do many similar things, but all in the wrong way.
Our coordinator had no knowledge of this group or thread when composing the system and the many technologies here posted. The power of intuition and being connected to the global matrix of energy.
Now, since the sequence of three internal chambers will be able to carry only one elevator from ground all the way up, each arch maintains various parallel chambers to allow more then one vertical elevator access path in each arch. The elevators and the arches will be made with low weight expandable synthetic materials that are able to withstand great pressures. This allows the entire arches and interior elevating chambers to be very light in weight.
As people ascend, they will be given oxygen masks and also parachutes, as security measures. Once the people reach the space ring, they can remove the equipment and parachutes. The interior elevators will also be connected to cables which go from the ground all the way up, to hold the elevator cabins in place should the entire arch collapse for some reason. These cables will also help hoist the elevators up within the arches, in situations where the pressure differentials are reduced, and to complement the pressure differential lifting force with a mechanical force as well. These cables will be attached to the balloons and to the upper global ring as well.
The central shaft connected to the rings will elevate the heavier cargo. The central shaft will use a combination of a vertical lift attached to the cable and the global ring at the top, and also the same atmospheric pressure differential chambers, which will suck the loads up vertically as well as being hoisted at the same time. This reduces the load on the global rings and the vertical hoisting cable substantially. The load will be shared by the space hoist connected to the global rings, and the pressure differential chambers.
Further, the arched access portals are connected at the top to the rings also, so are suspended at that point, and also along their path, by the balloons. The balloons are only needed to maintain the arched curvature to the shapes when the arches are empty and to hold them further in place. Further, the intersecting arches meet at the central shaft and this also provides further support, preventing the upper portion of the arch structure from swaying in the heaviest higher altitude winds. The middle and lower portions will not sway, as they will be filled with pressurized air while the elevator is ascending. The arches are allowed to bend and sway some in the heavy winds above. This will not interfere with their operation. Further, when the wind forces are too strong, the arches can be compressed in length by " reeling them in" from the central shaft and then become more like straight lines, and the ascent becomes an inclined 60 degree angle, approximately. The arches will be made with cables attached to springs as well, and they can elongate or expand into the full arch shapes as needed, and this provides them with malleability to resist the wind forces.
As shown, the expansion pressure caused by the atmospheric differential also expands the arches and maintains them suspended. Especially since the weights are being pushed up by the pressure differentials and not by being fully held by the arches. So on deployment, the entire arches can be elevated by the multiple balloons, and extended up into the skies, and as they are extended, they fill will pressured air, which is sucked up into the arches and extends then to their full height. Once they are hooked to the central shaft, the lower chamber is isolated and the pressure released from the remaining portions of the arch above, awaiting passengers. Passengers enter the compression chambers and these are released and pushed up vertically into the vacuum above within the arches. After the elevator car is evacuated, the sequence is repeated and the arch begins to operate taking groups of people up into the global ring. When the air is removed from the upper arch portions, the arches will be sucked into a tight closed position. As the compression chambers are pushed up, the arch left behind is filled with compressed air and the closed arches in the front of the elevator cars is pushed open to give path to the ascending elevators.
Groups of people will be accessing the arches with large distances in between each person going up, so the balloons need only to hold a few people each at a time within the arches. When there are no people in the arches, the balloons will be merely holding the arches in place. The arches can be filled with air at times when they are not in use, and this pressurized air will maintain the arches hanging in the sky, with their tops connected to the global ring. The balloons at these times can be allowed to drift out of gas and hang suspended along the sides of the arch until the arches are placed in use again. The balloons are then re-charged with helium, and the air from the arches is removed, forming a vacuum within, sucking the air up into space, and their interiors collapsing, with the entire arches supported by the balloons. The lower portion remains filled with ground level pressure air, and the elevators then can be pushed up into the vacuum until they reach the top. Then the procedure is repeated as normal. Air is allowed to enter the sides of the arch at all points, creating a pressure equalization, and the elevators catapult back down to the ground. The air is then removed from the upper chambers of the arch and the procedure is repeated, to carry people up to the sky, being pushed by the pressure differentials all the way up.
We have chosen the form of the arches so as to provide a more comfortable ride up, rather then a vertical one or a straight 60-70 degree trip all the way. Better to have an initial vertical ascent, when the pressure differential is greatest, and thus the vertical thrust is greatest. This is followed by a gradual curvature to a horizontal ascent as the people reach the top of the arched access gates.
Below attached is a diagram of the multiple rings system, and the chambers of ring globes that will encase the rings.
The upper ring globes move with the cables, and with the orbiting bodies attached at the end of the cables. They slide along the central ring, being connected by magnetic connectors, with a trigger safety system. The lower ring globes are fixed. The hoist cables go through these, and pull the weights up to the global ring. All the system below the ring is fixed and all the system above is in movement. A section is shown also, which illustrates how the entire system will be encased on all sides by the ring globes, creating an encased central ring, out of the reach of celestial bodies which may damage it. If one of the ring globes is hit, it can be repaired, and the main ring is left undamaged. The ring globes will be made with inflatable globes that are filled with oxygen and maintain small compartments and a structure to withstand impacts or explode on impact, leaving the central ring intact.
We have developed a proprietary design to solve a challenge and allow every man to access the sky, at an affordable cost.
It will enable the cities in the sky of the future. It is a future transportation system.
It is a Gateway to the Sky.
It will enable us to study new structural support systems in space, and means to design structures and buildings in space using the momentum of bodies of mass in motion..
The story of this new Gateway begins with a heavenly multi-colored brilliant structure suspended in the air
THE ARCH and THE GLOBAL RING in the new Gateway to the Sky.
In this system, the arch portals have their two ends on the ground and at the top meet at the central shaft, which leads up to the docking stations. By intersection two arches at 90 degrees, the result is a structure that is more stable at the lower and highest points, with minimum mid sections sway allowed. The arches follow the optimum form of a catenary--->>
FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS ON THE ARCHED ACCESS GATES
PRESSURE DIFFERENTIAL PHYSICS
THE RING GLOBES as "zoned areas"
The Space Energy Generators
The image below, "Space Generator" illustrates how in space we will be able to produce power by placing small versions of the ring system around a fixed turbine. These outer rings and their rotating bodies orbit and spin around their own central cores. These in turn are mounted on a greater ring system, and spin as a unit on the larger ring.
In the image "Space Generator1_", the system is expanded and is slowly built-up to allow for the incorporation of larger units composed of these individual systems. Thus, as the system expands, the energy production capacity expands as well.
In the image "space generator1_1_, the system is expanded further and smaller rotating systems spin around larger systems, and this entire unit becomes a gigantic space station and also energy producing machine. The inner cavities are filled with laboratories, cities, and the entire unit becomes a docking station as well. These massive space energy generators will also be hooked/connected to the earth ring and also to other planetary earth rings. They will be mass produced. The interior compartments will be made with the same synthetic light weight inflatable materials.
"What are ``cloud nines?''
[``Cloud nines'' are floating geodesic spheres. The following extract from a paper posted to GEODESIC by Robert T. Bowers explains the idea.] ``When considering a geodesic sphere, the weight of the sphere is a function of the surface of the sphere. The amount the sphere is lifted by warm air is a function of the volume of the sphere. In mathematical terms, weight is a function of the radius squared, while volume is a function of the radius cubed. This is very significant. Even as the radius of a sphere increases, thus increasing the sphere's weight, the lift of the sphere increases more. If you image a sphere that could grow larger, as the sphere gained a little weight, it would gain much lift.
``Buckminster Fuller proposed that as spheres of great size are considered, the amount of air enclosed grows huge compared to the weight of the sphere. Of a sphere with a radius of 1320 feet, the weight of the enclosed air is 1000 times greater than the weight of the sphere's structure. If that volume of air was heated only one degree, the sphere would begin to float!
``Of course, domes of even greater sizes would be required if that sphere were to carry any additional weight. But it is not inconceivable that floating geodesic spheres could carry aloft entire communities. Perhaps the concept of a floating dome of one half a mile diameter is too much for most people to seriously consider. Regardless, it does demonstrate the scope of projects that are made possible with geodesic domes.'' -Robert T. Bowers Fuller quote from I Seem To Be A Verb
Came across this small description which I thought might interest some people who haven't seen it before ...
Geodesic spheres larger than half-a-mile in diameter can be floated in the air, like clouds. Draped with polyethylene curtains -- to retard night-time air intake -- the spheres would be light enough to remain aloft, at preferred altitudes.
``Cloud nines'' one mile in diameter could house thousands of people, whose weight would be negligible. Passengers could pass from ``cloud'' to ``cloud,'' or from ``cloud'' to ground, as the ``clouds'' float around the Earth or are anchored to mountain tops. The ``clouds'' could become food factories by impounding sunlight.''
-- David Paschall-Zimbel"
