Eddy-current-generating tethers seem a more practical option: <https://www.colorado.edu/faculty/kantha/sites/default/files/attached-files/carpenter.pdf https:/

Eddy-current-generating tethers seem a more practical option: <https://www.colorado.edu/faculty/kantha/sites/default/files/attached-files/carpenter.pdf https://www.colorado.edu/faculty/kantha/sites/default/files/...> (A plot point in Neal Stephenson's Seveneves.)