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On the LaserMotive blog, they have recently posted two\u00a0updates.<\/p>\nOn the LaserMotive blog, they have recently posted two\u00a0updates.<\/p>\n
The first<\/a> is a continuation of their “Meet the team” series and introduces us to Joe Grez.<\/p>\n “Joe Grez has a jumble of education. It includes a BS in physics, a minor in music and art, a few years of architecture studies, half of a yacht design associates degree, coursework in various engineering disciplines, industrial design (IDEO), and manufacturing process, plus a seriously healthy dose of project management coursework, some of which stuck.<\/em>“<\/p><\/blockquote>\n He really does have a very interesting biography – check out the post<\/a>!<\/p>\n “Early on, we tried making our own continuous loop cable, but the quality was not stellar, and the cable eventually wound up fraying and breaking. After much searching, we found a local company that still practiced the old art of making long splices in steel cable. As you can see, the results are pretty nice.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The competition racetrack in this year’s Space Elevator Games<\/a>\u00a0is a steel cable (as opposed to the ribbon used in previous years).\u00a0 To create a cable that can run continuously on a treadmill requires that you be able to splice it into a continuous loop – something that the Brion Toss group does.\u00a0 Perhaps they should also\u00a0talk to DeltaX<\/a>, the MIT Tether competition team, about how to splice together their tether…<\/p>\n Check out the posts…<\/p>\n (Picture of the steel cable from the LaserMotive blog – click on it for a slightly larger version)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the LaserMotive blog, they have recently posted two\u00a0updates. The first is a continuation of their “Meet the team” series and introduces us to Joe Grez. “Joe Grez has a jumble of education. It includes a BS in physics, a minor in music and art, a few years of architecture studies, half of a yacht […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","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=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"\/media\/tn_LaserMotiveTreadmillCable.jpg\")
<\/a>The second update<\/a> talks about their newest sponsor, Brion Toss Yacht Riggers.\u00a0 What does a ‘Yacht Rigger’ have to offer a Space Elevator Power-Beaming \/ Climber team?\u00a0 From the blog:<\/p>\n