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Wow. Imagine just having a tether like this [whatever altitude] above your property - if you had multiple of these fibers, one could use them as guy-wires - to

Wow. Imagine just having a tether like this [whatever altitude] above your property - if you had multiple of these fibers, one could use them as guy-wires - to hold a balloon with solar powered cam and redundant fiber connections... These should be placed over mountains - remote cabins, ski resorts. Whats the tensile strength? So if you do use them as a guy - and hit some heavy winds... Put high powered air-plane-warning LEDS... a cam, and a HAM-to-fiber transceiver... EDIT - Also, several strands of these as guys holding a solar cambloon in place would pose no substantial threat to Big Bird.

BJones12 2y ago
> Whats the tensile strength? About 600 Kpsi. That works out to somewhere around 0.1 lb per strand.
- samstave 2y ago
  Oh I was thinking that the thing was jacketed like... I just assumed wrong - youd still need to wrap it in superconductive carbon nanotubes to make it work. :-)