We have about 30 years before things are tight enough here on the ground that such ‘investment potential’ won’t be possible to create if it doesn’t already exist. Get on the stick with other things fast or someday you will be telling your grandkids, if you have them, how great it “could have been”.

what you need to do, is either build a launch loop, which is well whithin your current capabilities, or, if all else fails, do the tried and true project orion…Both of these would allow cheap delivery of solar sattelites, which could easily supply all of your grid needs, and evne synthetic hydrocarbon needs until you transition to all electric cars over the course of the first half of this century and fusion for the grid in order not to be vulnerable to solar storms (I highly doubt a huge solar flare like the carrington event will happen in that 50 year window, if it does, you can always launch another orion spacecraft..if you can’t, well, then your totally screwed).

You would only need one orion spacecraft….so, despite the ‘fears’ of nuclear fallout…which is minimal…even if they somehow were..you are just launching one into space…just one spacecraft…But one huge orion spacecraft powered by nuclear explosions would be enough to launch either one or thousands of solar satellites, which could supply all of your grid needs and synthetic hydrocarbons as suggested..

I would prefer the launch loop, because once constructed, you could continuesly send things up in space at a very affordable price. However, if you get caught up in a bind…I think it makes sense to start preparing an orion right now, so that if you ever do face that gap in the cliff, you sure as hell can go over it.

So, all you nerdy earthlings on this blog—go and start campaigning…journalist pseudoscientists sci fi geeks…Go and start raising awareness and bring back the huge arm that got mobilized to build the space elevator, to now put its sites on the launch loop.

its totally whithin your current capabilities. Do it, and stop waiting for a technology that will only appear in the second half of the 21st century.

I don’t have any information on how wide these shafts are, but if sufficiently wide for the Space Elevator Games, this would provide a far steadier and less energy intensive platform than a helicopter, and could be anchored firmly at both ends. Why it would almost be like . . . a space elevator.

The Space Elevator Games are definitely ON, but the timing is still uncertain. We hope to have a resolution of the date in the next couple of weeks.

Thanks for watching / waiting