{"id":655,"date":"2007-06-23T18:15:17","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T23:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=655"},"modified":"2007-06-23T18:16:59","modified_gmt":"2007-06-23T23:16:59","slug":"the-bbc-visits-lasermotive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=655","title":{"rendered":"The BBC visits LaserMotive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/media\/laserstack-1kw.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/media\/tn_laserstack-1kw.jpg\"  \/><\/a>One of the new entrants into this year&#8217;s Space Elevator Games is <a href=\"http:\/\/lasermotive.com\/blog\/\">LaserMotive<\/a>.\u00a0 Now, I&#8217;m not privy to their plans or designs, but with a name like &#8220;LaserMotive&#8221; and a\u00a0picture of a 1kw laser on their blog (and also shown here), I&#8217;m hopeful that\u00a0 we will actually have at least one laser-powered climber in this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elevator2010.org\">Games<\/a> (note that\u00a0USST brought a laser to last year&#8217;s competition, but couldn&#8217;t get it working in time).\u00a0 It would be very cool to have multiple laser-powered vehicles competing this year; real competition using power-beaming devices envisoned to eventually power a real Space Elevator.<\/p>\n<p>The project manager at LaserMotive is Tom Nugent, the same Tom Nugent late of LiftPort.\u00a0 He emailed me a couple of days ago to point out a new entry in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasermotive.com\/blog\/?p=34\">blog<\/a>; it seems that they have been visited by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/\">BBC<\/a> to &#8220;<em>to interview us and to video some of LaserMotive\u2019s early hardware during May as part of a documentary they\u2019re working on about future technhology.<\/em>..&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>All I can say is &#8220;way cool&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usask.ca\/groups\/usst\/\">USST<\/a> still has to be considered the favorites in this year&#8217;s Games.\u00a0 They were the best team running in the first two competitions, missing out on the prize money by only 2 seconds last year.\u00a0 But knowing Tom Nugent like I do, I&#8217;m pretty confident that they&#8217;re going to give USST very stiff competition.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Click on the thumbnail, or visit the Lasermotive blog to view a larger version of the image of a 1kw laser)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the new entrants into this year&#8217;s Space Elevator Games is LaserMotive.\u00a0 Now, I&#8217;m not privy to their plans or designs, but with a name like &#8220;LaserMotive&#8221; and a\u00a0picture of a 1kw laser on their blog (and also shown here), I&#8217;m hopeful that\u00a0 we will actually have at least one laser-powered climber in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}