This type of transportation structure, which is a quasi-elliptical-hoop around the planet, anchored on the equator, supported by internally generated centrifugal force instead of by strength of materials (unlike tether space elevators,) essentially being a synchronous electrical motor supported by its electrodynamics and also lifting captive spacecraft between ground and high earth orbit GEO using its own internal circulating high velocity armature mass stream energy, and eventually electrically powered by solar energy via a Solar Power Satellite it enabled built in GEO, and utilizing easily developed modifications to existing technology in the near future, could enable the feasable construction and use of such large scale facilities as Solar Power Satellites to cleanly power any and all nations, solar powered total recycling facilities to process toxic industrial trash back into pure elements, very efficient high level electrically accessed rocket spaceports for very large spacecraft construction and use, and even large passively shielded (by water ice) wheel-type space cities, as shown in the diagrams below. Bear in mind that the energy given to mass by moving it from the Earth's equator up into GEO is only $1.57 per kilogram or 73 cents per pound mass, at 10 cents per KWh. Click on the image below to access U-Tube videos about the concepts. And explore the many pages per the menu above, in this work-in-progress website. This project needs to be developed in parallel with ongoing chemical fuel conventional launch systems, even though those businesses would then move up into GEO facilities once this KESTS to GEO project is built scaled to sufficient capacity. Multiple paths to space provide for resilience.
