From: nowhere@to.be.found.retro.com   
      
   Why not use the power naturally developed in the cable? ... see the NASA   
   teather experiment no details :-)   
      
      
   "Makhno"  wrote in message   
   news:c4v83o$iji$1@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk...   
   > > The current answer to the last question isn't magnets but .. lasers.   
   > > Free Electron lasers beam power to the climber, which converts the   
   > > energy into mechanical energy (wheels or treads).  IIRC, a FEL has   
   > > been designed that can do the job.   
   >   
   > There's a lot of traffic in this thread about powering the climber. Why   
   > can't it simply have a diesel/gasoline engine with its own oxygen supply?   
   > Or run electrical cables up the elevator to power an electric motor?   
   >   
   > Why make things more complicated than they need to be?   
   >   
   >   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)