What is the cosmic pier?
Space Pier is a new concept of starting the universe, conceived by a nanotechnologist and a computer scientist Dr. Joshem Hall. Dr. The Hall presents the concept of the cosmic pier occasionally at conferences, often in conjunction with molecular production, which would probably be necessary to make the concept efficient and realistic for implementation. The payload rises to one of the 100 km towers in the elevator, then it is lowered along the horizontal track for 300 km using the electromagnetic control driver. At only 10 GS for 80 seconds, which is a tolerable level for a person with padded seats, the projectil can be fired from the atmosphere. Three humdred kilometers is a sufficient track to require a projectile from zero to approximately 8.2 km/s (5.1 million) using contemporary electromagnetic technology. If sensitive cargo is not about speed (11.2 km/s or 7.0 miles/s).
Space Pier is a compromise that with a dreamL In an effort to bypass several problems of other common designs after the roller-cosmic elevator/orbital skyhook and a mass driver based on the ground, also known as an electromagnetic accelerator or a railway weapon. Two more designs are gaining more attention and printing, but the cosmic pier would be cheaper and more efficient than both. On his website representing the idea of Dr. Hall observes that the air density at a height of 100 km is just a million density on the sea level, which significantly makes it easier to accelerate the useful load to high speed. The cosmic elevator would get in the way of the satellites that would inevitably collide with it if it took a geosynchronous orbit. It would also have to be much higher than 100 km, more than 10,000 km or more.
Because IT is 100 km tall, rather than 10,000 km, the material could be made of the cosmic pier than theoretically be in bulk - diamond. This is unlike a cosmic elevator that would have to be built from atomically accurate buckYtubes or carbon nanotubes to support its own weight. Diamonds can already be synthesized in relatively large quantities at moderate costs, but completely new production processes would be required to create a quantity. No wonder Dr. Hall suggests molecular production. The height of the structure of 100 km would also eliminate the cosmic pier from the extent of most cosmic unsolicited, which is quickly drawn into a free fall at this altitude.
According to Dr. Halla raises a 10-ton useful lift of 100 km of lift and then accelerate to 8.2 km/s would consume only about $ 5,000 (USD) worth electricity and developed about half a dollar per kilogram. This is significantly Better than the current $ 10,000 per kilogram start. The project would not have enough speed to escape the Earth at this level of acceleration, but twisted all the way around the planet and stabilized at an altitude of approximately 340 km (211 m). UsefulIt would have to make some mild maneuvers in itself to ensure that its orbit became a regular circle. In order to escape the ground and reach interplanetary pathways, mass drivers could be placed in space, because the route points or conventional missiles could be used to make the use of the country's gravity well.
Theone hundred kilometers sounds like an extremely high height for many towers, but note that towers that are approaching one kilometer (0.62 m) at a height are already under construction and materials we use for skyscrapers are relatively conventional. Progress in the 21st century will allow us to produce in mass things that were previously expensive, including Diamond. Space Pier is a test of visionary future application of this technology.