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The Mooncable Project, as put onto Genie Spaceport Library files in 1988
*********************************Number: 480 Name: INTRO TO MOONCABLEAddress: J.E.D.CLINE1 Date: 880707Approximate # of bytes: 3780Number of Accesses: 33 Library: 3Description:Introduction to purpose and general function of Mooncable project, which is a Lunar tetherthrough L-1, made of Lunar fiberglass and carries a combined transportation and materialsprocessing function on a one-way trip. Purpose is to supply massive amounts of Lunarmaterials to Earth markets and LEO.Keywords: Mooncable,transportation,historical,elevator,tether,Moon---------------------------------INTRO NOTE TO MOONCABLE PROJECT PROPOSAL by J. E. D. ClineInexpensive homes being constructed of superior structural materials made in free-fallvacuum from Lunar raw materials? A construction project in space to strongly challenge theingenuity and daring of hard-working engineers, planting mankind's feet solidly in space?Would you like to see this happen? I offer an idea for your active support , with perhaps justsuch a potential. Please read it thoughtfully without preconception. It offers some chance forspace exploration to commercially pay for itself from here on out.(...this idea has such greatpotential significance that too great a time delay may cause an inability of our technology toimplement it in later years, or perhaps interest will have died too far by then.)
 
I am proposing a specialized space transportation system, intended primarily to bring largequantities of materials from the Moon to the Earth, and from the Moon into a low(Earth orbit)gravitational level.Examination of the concept shows it has some very interesting properties. Elements of theidea are very old, the most basic comparable concept was used as long ago as when the firstape swung from one tree to another on a vine, to keep from having to climb down one andthen climb up another.A siphon has a more closely related characteristic, which transfers mass from a highergravitational level to a lower gravitational level yet bringing it up through a higher gravitationallevel than either the starting or ending level.Fundamentally, the transportation process converts the gravitational energy of a mass beingaccellerated by a gravitational field into electrical energy, which is then transfered across thegravitational hump, or saddle, which exists between the Moon and the Earth, and there theelectrical energy is reconverted into gravitational energy by lifting mass there. The spacialreference necessary for this process is provided by a tensile structure attached to the Moonand extending part way toward Earth. The stress on this structure consists of the weight of itsown mass, the weight of the electrical conductors, and the forces due to the live loads on thestructure, all extending through a varying gravitational field....James Edward David ClineWritten April 27-30, 1972Input to GEnie Spaceport July 07, 1988The "Mooncable: Gravitational-Electric Siphon in Space" proposal will be uploaded to GEniewhen condensed to a reasonable size.
 
*********************************Number: 485 Name: MOONCABLE PROJECTAddress: J.E.D.CLINE1 Date: 880717Approximate # of bytes: 16380Number of Accesses: 22 Library: 3Description:An unusual, highly specialized space transportation concept was generated to provide aprofit-making space enterprise. The concept offers highly energy efficient transportation ofpayload from the Lunar surface. Includes early calculations on a constant-stress cross-sectioncable.Keywords: Mooncable,transportation,maglev---------------------------------MOONCBL9By J. E. D. Cline, July 16, 1988The Earth's physical makeup has so many incredible coincidences that are needed for life toexist upon it, and The Earth's moon seems an extension of those coincidences in the possibleextension of Earthlife into space. The Lunar tides of earth's oceans upon her beaches hasstirred tidal life onto land from the sea; now the fact that the Moon always has the same faceturned toward the Earth, and its relatively large mass near the Earth, show promise of a majorstepping-stone for the extension of Earthlife into space. And the Lunar terrain is a potential
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