{"id":702,"date":"2007-08-17T18:05:36","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T23:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=702"},"modified":"2007-08-18T20:15:18","modified_gmt":"2007-08-19T01:15:18","slug":"news-from-the-andromeda-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"News from the Andromeda Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"100\" src=\"\/media\/AndromedaConnectionLogo.jpg\"  height=\"99\" style=\"width: 100px; height: 99px\" \/>The Andromeda Connection has updated <a href=\"http:\/\/anconn.com\/?p=pr\">their blog<\/a> (they entitle it &#8220;Progress Report&#8221;).\u00a0 The latest news reads, in part;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;It seems the solar laser will be easier and cheaper to build anyway, and the odds of cloud cover during the 3 day event are acceptable. It was therefore decided that a MOLPSoL solar laser would replace the spot lights, providing 6 suns of light energy instead of the original 2 suns expected from the spot lights.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/AnConnDrivesystem.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/tn_AnConnDriveSystem.jpg\"  height=\"150\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 150px\" \/><\/a>The man has confidence, no doubt about it.\u00a0 On his &#8220;Why AnConn&#8221; page, he states;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;True, there is a lot of competition in this event. Some of this year&#8217;s competitors have big names. Some have proven their muster in past events. But given what I have seen from past events, the research I&#8217;ve done and my ideas for overcoming the problems mentioned below, there is no doubt in my mind that this year&#8217;s competition is in the bag.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Due to his change in Climber power supply, he also now has some items for sale;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I have 6 \u2013 2500W\/220V long throw spot lights for sale. Asking $1200.00 each, plus shipping. Any takers?&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Their website also\u00a0has a number of photos and videos on it &#8211; definitely worth checking out.\u00a0 The thumbnail shown on this post is from their gallery and is\u00a0of the two halves of their drive system.\u00a0 Click on it for a larger view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Andromeda Connection has updated their blog (they entitle it &#8220;Progress Report&#8221;).\u00a0 The latest news reads, in part; &#8220;It seems the solar laser will be easier and cheaper to build anyway, and the odds of cloud cover during the 3 day event are acceptable. It was therefore decided that a MOLPSoL solar laser would replace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-entries","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","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=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}