🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Aug3.222148.2892@fs7.ece.cmu.edu>, snyder@henry.ece.cmu.edu (John Snyder) writes:
> In article <51016@seismo.CSS.GOV> black@seismo.CSS.GOV (Mike Black) writes:
>>NASA claims they intend to generate electricity with the tether 
>>experiment coming up Monday.  
>
> On National Public Radio, they said that the real idea was ultimately to
> use the idea backwards, i.e. as a motor, rather than as a generator.
> They said that the hope was that they could use solar panels to generate
> electric power to flow current through a tether, to help maintain
> orbits of large satellites or space staions, etc.

A detailed discussion, featuring explanations by very smart people, can be
found over on sci.space.

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