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Why don't they design the towers so they can be laid down flat and fixed on the ground and then pushed back upright again?
by fliglr 2y ago
Why don't they design the towers so they can be laid down flat and fixed on the ground and then pushed back upright again?
- SpaghettiCthulu 2y agoBecause then you need a 1115 ft stretch of flat ground to lay it on?
- _2d30 2y agoThen make it collapse in a spiral. Then, assuming you can make it infinitely thin, you can collapse into an arbitrarily small area.
- kaikai 2y agoI can’t tell if this is a serious question. Towers this size are built in place, being able to handle the strain of being lifted from horizontal would be wild. Much easier and cheaper to pay a climber.
- capitainenemo 2y agoOk. Lowering a huge tower to the ground pretty silly. How about designing the array at the top as a platform that could be lowered. Too much extra weight/cost?
- quesera 2y agoSome very large towers do indeed have platforms at the top. And some even have elevators. But the vast majority do not. Very expensive to build.
- ozim 2y agoIf I think about all the things that ca go wrong with folding huge tower, sending people to climb one seems like a fair trade.
- ghxst 2y agoI'd assume physics are the biggest constraint here. Just look at the machinery and equipment needed to raise a falcon 9 which is "only" ~230 ft tall.