Daily Archives: May 18, 2007

Liftport Deadline

From the May, 2007 Newsletter;

Michael Laine, President of LiftPort Group, has set a hard date by which we must turn this company profitable. We must produce 25k/month in revenue by September 1st or we will be dissolving the corporation. It’s possible. We have tons of books and other retail items yet to be sold, we have the Tethered Towers balloon product, we have great speakers, we even have a non-working nanotube furnace on the other side of the country that needs a lift. Some of these could produce that revenue on their own; several of them together should be able to do it.

You can read the entire newsletter here.

LiftPort’s Joe Julian interviewed

The LiftPort Blog pointed me to an interview that Joe Julian (from Liftport) recently gave on the Bob Rivers show.  The website for the show is here and a direct link to the interview is here.  It appears to be just cut off after about 7 minutes, but, other than the hosts going off-subject into some Lindsay Lohan diet jokes (gotta’ keep all of the audience interested, I guess) along the way, I thought that Joe handled it pretty well.

Liftport photos now on flickr

Michael Laine of Liftport fame (hey, that rhymes!) has posted a plethora of photographs on the flickr website.  You can access his “main page” here, and then thumb through the multiple pages of posted photographs.

In the main stream of photographs, many of them are hardware-related, others are “travel photos”, taken, I assume, while they were traveling to-from test sites.  There are other streams of pictures; the most interesting, to me, were the ones of the carbon nanotube furnace.

Back to the future

Here is a book review of an effort that sounds interesting and amusing.  According to the review, Space Elevators are mentioned in this book, but I have no idea how much or how seriously.  Still, if someone is looking for reading material, this may fill the bill.  Available at Amazon.com (and probably other places as well)…

Another review of the book, complete with an interview with the author, can be found here.

(Click on the thumbnail for a larger version of the Book Cover)