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You don't actually need a wheel. Just a counterweight and a cable. It's unlikely a full g is necessary, anyway. A half would do well.
by skookumchuck 9y ago
You don't actually need a wheel. Just a counterweight and a cable.
It's unlikely a full g is necessary, anyway. A half would do well.
- lorenzhs 9y agoYou might be able to get by with even less if your goal is to provide a consistent up/down and not have to velcro everything down. I don't have any sourcing for it and obviously it's from a Sci-Fi book, even if it's one that is rather well-researched, but in the Expanse series they use accelerations of around 0.3g a lot (both for stations and ship drives). Would be nice to know if they pulled that number from thin air or what the thought process behind it is.
- anotheryou 9y agoThey do produce trash and such, no? The counterweight could be build up trash than :)