{"id":101,"date":"2006-04-09T22:34:17","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T03:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=101"},"modified":"2006-04-09T22:34:17","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T03:34:17","slug":"stairway-to-heaven-space-elevators-platinum-and-the-hydrogen-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Stairway to Heaven: Space Elevators, Platinum, and the Hydrogen Economy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Space Elevator concept must be gaining traction &#8211; it&#8217;s now getting politicized.\u00a0 Some weeks ago, James Miller, an Assistant Professor of Economics at Smith College, proposed in his article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcsdaily.com\/article.aspx?id=031406E\">&#8220;Elevating Elephants&#8221;<\/a>, that the Republicans should adopt a campaign plank in support of a Space Elevator.\u00a0 Today at DailyKos,\u00a0ManFromMiddletown posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2006\/4\/7\/194036\/2320\">article<\/a> that discussed energy alternatives and talked in favorable terms about the problems that a Space Elevator could solve.\u00a0 The author refers to the Miller article as coming from the &#8220;Dark Side&#8221;.\u00a0 He mentions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liftport.com\">LiftPort <\/a>and believes that the Space Elevator should be built by an International Coalition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Space Elevator concept must be gaining traction &#8211; it&#8217;s now getting politicized.\u00a0 Some weeks ago, James Miller, an Assistant Professor of Economics at Smith College, proposed in his article &#8220;Elevating Elephants&#8221;, that the Republicans should adopt a campaign plank in support of a Space Elevator.\u00a0 Today at DailyKos,\u00a0ManFromMiddletown posted an article that discussed energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}