{"id":680,"date":"2007-07-20T14:35:15","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T19:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=680"},"modified":"2007-07-21T18:12:31","modified_gmt":"2007-07-21T23:12:31","slug":"russiatoday-looks-at-space-elevators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"RussiaToday looks at Space Elevators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"105\" src=\"\/media\/RussiaTodayLogo.jpg\"  height=\"103\" style=\"width: 105px; height: 103px\" \/>The first half of this 25 minute long YouTube video (originally from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.russiatoday.ru\/\">RussiaToday<\/a>) is devoted to nanotechnology and Russia&#8217;s move into this field of research.\u00a0 Just after the video&#8217;s 10 minute mark, the narrator talks about how carbon nanotubes might be used to build an earth-based Space Elevator.\u00a0 He theorizes that the climbers might be powered via Solar Energy (rather than ground-based lasers) or that the cable itself might be able to conduct power for the climbers.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3-TdY2RxgW4[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first half of this 25 minute long YouTube video (originally from RussiaToday) is devoted to nanotechnology and Russia&#8217;s move into this field of research.\u00a0 Just after the video&#8217;s 10 minute mark, the narrator talks about how carbon nanotubes might be used to build an earth-based Space Elevator.\u00a0 He theorizes that the climbers might be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews-presentations","category-materials","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","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=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}