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For the 5km chimney it needs to hold on 500km/h winds. For scale a category 5 hurricane is 250 km/h. Is it even possible to have that kind of structure with exi
by humanfromearth 9y ago
For the 5km chimney it needs to hold on 500km/h winds. For scale a category 5 hurricane is 250 km/h. Is it even possible to have that kind of structure with existing materials?
- foota 9y agoI'm not a real engineer, but most structures don't have the ability to flex like this tube could.
- totalZero 9y agoRich Homie Quan couldn't even flex like this tube could. Making really tall stuff is hard.
- ErikVandeWater 9y agoWhile I am generally skeptical of this idea, 500km/hr winds occur at much higher altitudes - the force is much less than it seems because there is much less air doing the pushing. If a human can get to the edge of space and freefall safely, I imagine that will not be the sticking point.
- robotresearcher 9y agoThe falling human is free to move with the wind. No shear forces. Unlike a tower attached to the ground.
- kbenson 9y agoThey are proposing a fabric chimney. For sure that has its own challenges, but shear force isn't as much a problem, from I would intuit the setup to be.
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