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Maybe I'm totally missing something, but how do these platforms and tubes magically get to altitude, and what is keeping them there?
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Another function of the fuel hose is that it is also the lift rope. Lift cabins will rise up on the hose by electrical energy.
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He must be assuming electrically powered "helicopter-like" blades for the cabins, but then he says the cabins are expendable. I had assumed he would have rocket powered reusable cabins.
My guess is that when the arithmetic is done and the tensile strength of the rope-hose is determined, YABLAM is toast. Yavuz, you need to get out more into the industrial world and see how a project comes together. Neither NASA nor any other space agency can afford to consider a system with so many disaster generating failure modes even if they could find appropriate material, construction procedures, and test methods.
Are any of the following terms interchangeable: cabin, lift cabin, station, payload cabin?