{"id":759,"date":"2007-10-08T11:43:16","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T16:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=759"},"modified":"2007-10-08T11:52:07","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T16:52:07","slug":"another-way-to-skin-the-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=759","title":{"rendered":"Another way to skin the cat?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In last year’s Space Elevator Games<\/a> Climber \/ Power-Beaming event, the University of Michigan’s MClimber achieved the distinction of being the first Climber to make it to the top of a competition ribbon.\u00a0 They are entered again this year, but have been very quiet about what they are going to do (psst – there are no Climbers entered from Appalachian State, so it’s safe \ud83d\ude42 )<\/p>\n

In this article<\/a>, Engineers from the University of Michigan have come up with this “By mimicking a brick-and-mortar molecular structure found in seashells, University of Michigan researchers created a composite plastic that’s as strong as steel but lighter and transparent.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The traditional understanding of how carbon nanotubes will be used to construct the Elevator is by weaving or bonding\u00a0ultra-long fibers together (at least that’s my understanding).\u00a0 This approach from the U of M is different and may present an alternative way of creating a tether.\u00a0 Yes, I know, there are issues with doing it this way.\u00a0 But this is “rev 1” of this approach and it may turn out to have some promise.<\/p>\n

And if it does, next year we may see a University of Michigan entrant into both the Climber \/ Power Beaming event and the Tether event.\u00a0 Here’s hoping…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In last year’s Space Elevator Games Climber \/ Power-Beaming event, the University of Michigan’s MClimber achieved the distinction of being the first Climber to make it to the top of a competition ribbon.\u00a0 They are entered again this year, but have been very quiet about what they are going to do (psst – there are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759","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=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}