KESTS to GEO Website
			A PowerPoint presentation -- For beginners -- Functional principles -- Theory of operation -- Energy added to payload to GEO -- Construction sequence -- Business interface -- What it would do -- Home page -- Contact the author Graphics -- Q&A -- Development of the concept -- Students' research topics -- About the author -- References --
			Functional Principles Essentially merely a large electric motor of a very novel type, KESTS to GEO would lift a continuous stream of vehicles up from the ground all the way up to Geostationary Earth Orbit 36,000 km (22,300 miles) above the equator, where the vehicles would discharge their payload of materials and people, gather new payload and are gently returned to Earth surface by the KESTSGEO transportation structure. The vehicles travel attached to secondary armature segments along outer maglev tracks on the motor's stationary stator structure, lifted by the upward-bound armature segments magnetic fields as they travel at very high velocity in the lower maglev tracks. Enclosed in a hard vacuum, the armature segments' velocity component above orbital transfer velocity, constrained by the stator track shape, becomes expressed as outward centrifugal force, at some value balancing the weight of the stator structure with its loads.
	Humanitarian purposes What it would be As written in 1989 What it is now Integration with civilization Applications Materials built of Electromechanical shapes Electromechanical action If as science fiction

• The expected basic benefits of near future space elevators: high capacity, economical, reliable transportation between earth surface and high earth orbit, which is free of the upcoming chemical propulsion energy source depletion effects.
  • With petrochemical production peaking in 5 years, the massive chemical energy required to conventionally lift things and people to orbit will become a major concern.
  • Alternative future options for civilization if sufficient space elevators do not happen quickly enough.
• KESTS to GEO: Space Elevator conceptual designs which utilize stored kinetic energy within structures to both support the structure between ground and space, and to deliver lift energy to vehicles traveling between ground and space
  • History of concepts related to energy-strengthened structures for transportation systems
    • History of this author's (J E D Cline's) efforts related to space elevator transportation systems
  • Creating a sliding armature energy-momentum transfer technology base
  • Construction techniques for building KESTS to GEO
  • Applications enabled by space elevators to GEO, particularly by KESTS to GEO
• An exciting tether-type Space Elevator recent proposal by Bradley Edwards, utilizing carbon nanotube matrix ribbon tether material, for a near future heavy lift capability to GEO and beyond: http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/library/fellows_mtg/jun01_mtg/pdf/521Edwards.pdf
  • Exploring some variations on use of that technology
• Comparison between tether-type and KESTS-type earth space elevator conceptual design attributes
• Technological requirements are not the greatest obstacles to space elevator implementation, it is the lack of human urge to make it happen as part of today's business system.
  • Space Elevators fitting into the corporate business system
  • How to get people to work cooperatively toward great mutual goals, instead of fighting over scraps
  • Amplifying human capacity to function well