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As you all know, there were a total of eight teams which competed in this year’s Climber \/Power-Beaming competition.\u00a0 Two other teams, however, almost made it and they brought their climbers to display to the crowds and to the other competitors.<\/p>\n
I was able to talk with both competitors briefly, certainly not as much as I would have liked to – but other events \/ blogging kept me pretty busy.\u00a0 Let’s hope that we see both of these competitors at next year’s Games.\u00a0 The Prize Money is now a cool $900,000\u00a0– enough to get\u00a0anyone’s pecuniary\u00a0juices flowing, for sure.<\/p>\n Click on the thumbnails for larger versions of the Climbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As you all know, there were a total of eight teams which competed in this year’s Climber \/Power-Beaming competition.\u00a0 Two other teams, however, almost made it and they brought their climbers to display to the crowds and to the other competitors. One was from Arthur Shay’s\u00a0Team Zero-G.\u00a0 This is a Stirling-engine powered climber, the third […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","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=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/DSC00327.jpg\")
<\/a>One was from Arthur Shay’s\u00a0Team Zero-G<\/a>.\u00a0 This is a Stirling-engine powered climber, the third attempt, I think, at doing such an entry at the Games.\u00a0 None of them have been able to compete, however, so either the technology is flawed or it just hasn’t been executed as well (or as soon) as it should.\u00a0 Incidentally, Arthur was\/is trying to make this climber an open \/ cooperative effort (ala Michael Laine and Liftport).\u00a0 If you’re interested in participating with this team at next year’s Games, give Arthur a shout at zero.g.tec [AT] gmail [DOT] com – he’d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n![](\"\/media\/2007SEGames\/tn_DSC00189.jpg\")
<\/a>The other was Michael Harvey’s entry;\u00a0the Andromeda Connection<\/a>.\u00a0 This device was to be powered by MOLPSol, their “Solar Laser”.\u00a0 From\u00a0his website: “A solar laser. Of course any device producing white light cannot be considered a laser in the strictest sense of the word, but, it’s similar to a laser in that it produces a collimated beam of light with a relatively narrow bandwidth.”<\/em>\u00a0 It would have been very interesting to see this Climber in action.\u00a0 And, I’m not trying to be snarky or anything, but this Climber looks for all the world\u00a0like something out of “Lost in Space”. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n