Basalt Continuous Fiber material - ideal for lunar elevator

Charles,

Basalt fiber seems a good choice for lunar elevator.
HTS, high temperature superconductor cable, 300 foot sections from New York, could be used in the cable as mag-lev source.

Kevin

Date: Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 7:24 AM

I just learned from Brad Guth about Basalt Continuous Fiber material.

Today it is commercially available, made from volcanic ash on Earth, and has excellent material properties, comparable to glass-fiber and graphite fibre.

There is abundant native basalt readily available on the lunar surface.

It looks like most if not all a lunar elevator could be made of Basalt Continuous Fiber.

It gets better and better.