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RE: Wireless Transmission
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- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:00:11 -0700
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Original poster: "Mccauley, Daniel H" <daniel.h.mccauley@xxxxxxxx>
Actually, the materials do exist.
Have you been following the space elevator proposal ? ? ?
Dan
>+ The problem of a 15-mile high antenna wire is still
>insurmountable, as all existing materials would self-destruct
>from their
>own weight, although a fiber of carbon nanotubes might come
>close, Add to
>this the shearing forces and whipping stresses by existing winds up to
>80,000 ft. and no, the materials to build such "antennas"
>which did not
>exist in Tesla's time, still do not exist.