{"id":928,"date":"2008-02-17T00:42:21","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T05:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=928"},"modified":"2008-02-17T00:42:21","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T05:42:21","slug":"the-space-elevator-vs-fusion-power-ben-shelef-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=928","title":{"rendered":"The Space Elevator vs. Fusion Power &#8211; Ben Shelef responds&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Shelef of Spaceward sent me the following response to the Bruce Pittman statement (comparing the reality of using Fusion Power for rockets to a Space Elevator) that I\u00a0posted <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=927\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Regrettably, that statement shows such a basic lack of understanding of both the Space Elevator design or even straight forward physical reasoning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To respond directly, there is absolutely zero connection between the wind behavior of the power beaming setup and a real Space Elevator.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A real Space Elevator, inside the atmosphere, will likely have a round cross section, about 1\/4&#8243; in diameter, and only 0.05% of the Space Elevator (yes &#8211; half-a-thousandth) is inside any appreciable atmosphere. (50km). The Space Elevator will oscillate with a period of hours, not even comparable to what we see in atmospheric tests.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Having said that, here is one more statement:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Go Fusion! Fusion technology is definitely not a pipe-dream, and we need it urgently.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thank you Ben&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Shelef of Spaceward sent me the following response to the Bruce Pittman statement (comparing the reality of using Fusion Power for rockets to a Space Elevator) that I\u00a0posted here. &#8220;Regrettably, that statement shows such a basic lack of understanding of both the Space Elevator design or even straight forward physical reasoning. To respond directly, [&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-928","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\/928","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=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}