KESTS to GEO Kinetic Energy Supported Transportation Structures to GEO
		PowerPoint presentation -- For beginners -- Functional principles -- Theory of operation -- Calculating energy added to payload to GEO -- Construction sequence -- Business interface -- What it would do -- Contact the author Humanitarian purposes -- As written in 1989 -- What it is now -- Electromechanical action -- Graphics -- Q&A -- Development of the concept -- Students' research topics -- If as science fiction -- Author's efforts -- About the author -- References --
		The purpose of KESTS to GEO is to gain immense new resources for civilization while not significantly disrupting the ecosystem. Immense supplies of energy to provice the world with abundant electrical power; hard vacuum for total recycling of toxic waste materials; and plenty of room to grow, have long been known to exist in orbital space around the Earth, but previously there has been no nearly adequate transportation system that could provide economical high capacity continuous transportation between the earth's surface and earth orbit. Even the most sophgisticated of advanced rocket propelled launch vehicles, which use conventional reaction engine chemical propulsion techniques, are extremely expensive and consume enormous amounts of our dwidling energy resources for each launch to space, due to the requirement That they lift the massive weight of all the fuel needed to make the entire trip to prbit, most of the fuel's energy being used to lift the weight of the fuel itself. Some very different way to link the ground with eathrf orbit needs to be created and here we will explore the basics of a kind of transportation system that potentially can do the job.

 

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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