I hadn't heard of this propulsion idea before

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Steve, you have mistakenly sent this to me. Your comments are very good and
we are looking for skeptics like yourself. We intend to launch this solar
furnace into orbit and we need people that are not yes men. Please look this
over and let us know what you think. Thank you, Jerry Scovel.
From: "Freetrader2300"
To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [spacesettlers] Re: I hadn't heard of this propulsion idea before
Date: Mon, Apr 15, 2002, 12:21 PM

--- In spacesettlers@y..., rmenich@m... wrote:
> http://www.faraday.ru/t-cap.html
> http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/lifter3.htm
>
> Comments?

The skeptic in me says that it would have been really easy to suspend
the test vehicle by the three tether lines and then simply
invert/crop the photo to make it appear that they were holding it
down. On the other hand, assuming that this is for real:

1. Can it be "scaled-up" to lift meaningful payloads?

2. Could a scaled-up vehicle reach LEO?

3. Would the power requirements for the LEO capable vehicle be so
great that the design becomes impractical?

4. Would this work in deep space?

Steve Whitting
freetrader2300@...

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Re: [spacesettlers] Re: I hadn't heard of this propulsion idea before

Steve, you have mistakenly sent this to me. Your comments are very good and we are looking for skeptics like yourself. We intend to launch this solar furnace into orbit and we need people that are not yes men. Please look this over and let us know what you think. Thank you, Jerry Scovel.
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From: "Freetrader2300"
To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [spacesettlers] Re: I hadn't heard of this propulsion idea before
Date: Mon, Apr 15, 2002, 12:21 PM

--- In spacesettlers@y..., rmenich@m... wrote:
> http://www.faraday.ru/t-cap.html http://www.faraday.ru/t-cap.html>
> http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/lifter3.htm http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/lifter3.htm>
>
> Comments?

The skeptic in me says that it would have been really easy to suspend
the test vehicle by the three tether lines and then simply
invert/crop the photo to make it appear that they were holding it
down. On the other hand, assuming that this is for real:

1. Can it be "scaled-up" to lift meaningful payloads?

2. Could a scaled-up vehicle reach LEO?

3. Would the power requirements for the LEO capable vehicle be so
great that the design becomes impractical?

4. Would this work in deep space?

Steve Whitting
freetrader2300@...