{"id":927,"date":"2008-02-16T01:03:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T06:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=927"},"modified":"2008-02-16T01:03:53","modified_gmt":"2008-02-16T06:03:53","slug":"the-space-elevator-vs-fusion-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"The Space Elevator vs. Fusion Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"281\" src=\"\/media\/TheSpaceShowLogo.jpg\"  height=\"54\" style=\"width: 281px; height: 54px\" \/>In a recent episode of The Space Show, the show&#8217;s host, Dr. David Livingston, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thespaceshow.com\/detail.asp?q=891\">interviewed Bruce Pittman<\/a>.\u00a0 The topic of the show was Fusion Power &#8211; what is the status, when might it be available, problems in creating it, etc.\u00a0 Now frankly, I know very little about the ins and outs of fusion power, how feasible it is, etc., so I&#8217;m in no position to judge Mr. Pittman&#8217;s veracity or expertise on this subject.\u00a0 What did interest me, however (and why I&#8217;m mentioning this interview on the Space Elevator Blog), was\u00a0when a listener asked Mr. Pittman about what he thought what was &#8220;more realistic&#8221;; fusion power for rocket propulsion\u00a0or a Space Elevator.\u00a0 Not surprisingly, Mr. Pittman said &#8220;fusion power&#8221;.\u00a0 He freely admits\u00a0he doesn&#8217;t know much about the Space Elevator, but says that, based on his trips to the last &#8220;two X-Prize Cups&#8221; to watch the Space Elevator Games (?!), there seems to be some &#8220;real challenges&#8221; to building a Space Elevator, specifically wind issues (and tether strength)\u00a0and the problem with space debris.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have the background to make this comparison on my own so I won&#8217;t try.\u00a0 But perhaps you have your own opinion \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The discussion about fusion vs. Space Elevator is near the end of the interview, beginning at the 52:28 mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent episode of The Space Show, the show&#8217;s host, Dr. David Livingston, interviewed Bruce Pittman.\u00a0 The topic of the show was Fusion Power &#8211; what is the status, when might it be available, problems in creating it, etc.\u00a0 Now frankly, I know very little about the ins and outs of fusion power, how [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews-presentations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","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=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}