KESTS to GEO Website
			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 -- Author'S efforts -- About the author -- References --
			What Is It Now KESTS to GEO at the present time (2002) is an extensively developed technical conceptual design preparing for an electromechanical interconnect between the Earth's surface and the orbit that moves synchronously with the Earth's surface, GEO. Exploring the potentials and implications of this KESTSGEO concept produce multiple cascades of thoughtful visions, filling in the details of its functioning mechanisms, transportation natures and capacities, efficiencies, economics, and effects on people and civilization's directions thereafter. And, much as the railroads made the large scale opening up of the American cintinent interior and western areas, the kestsgeo spacerail could open up the vast resources of high Earth orbit environment in enormous ways. This could enable such potential functions as providing ample clean electrical power for the planet to conserve petrochemical reserves, total recycling of industry's most toxic wastes, lifting spacecraft electrically to GEO where they could efficiently launch to points throughout the solar system, and enable the construction of the large scale space settlements formerly envisioned for construction at L5.
	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

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• 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