Another great article in
Business 2.o.
The 62,000-Mile Elevator RideRockets are old news. The hottest idea in space enterprise is a tether to take us all the way from Earth to orbit...
Want to bring down the cost of sending cargo into space? Just build an elevator. Since the Earth is constantly spinning, if you attach a counterweight to it with a cable, and put it 62,000 miles away, the cable will be tight enough to run an elevator or car up it.
The theory has been around for a long time. But it was only recently that a material was discovered that would be strong enough for the cable or ribbon - Nanotubes. Nanotubes can be 100 times stronger than steel and weigh only a fifth as much.
The
LiftPort Group is a company that is working on a space elevator.
Posted by:
- Mark - 7:11 PM
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Saturday, April 08, 2006
Fundable.org
I just read a cool article in Business 2.0 -
Fund-Raising Goes Peer-to-Peer.
Fundable.org lets groups of people pool their money to make purchases or raise money. Some examples include:
- Splitting the cost of something big (pool money for gifts, real estate, parties)
- Buying a product in bulk to save money
- Rasing money for a personal project
- Non-profit organizations, political candidates
- Business ventures
You can even set it up so that you only collect from people if you reach your stated goal. Pretty cool....
Posted by:
- Mark - 9:41 AM
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