An apparatus is described for supporting payloads at high elevations with respect to a planetary body. The apparatus comprises a bearing that encircles a portion of a planetary body. One ring of the bearing rotates and a coupling mechanism transfers centripetal forces to another non-rotating ring. Stays connect the non-rotating ring to the planetary body; and contribute a force that is in equilibrium with the centripetal and gravitational forces. A preferred embodiment is constructed and tested in the ocean encircling Antarctica and then raised to altitude. Its coupling mechanism employs magnetic forces and its stays are interwoven, partially supported and stabilized aeronautically, and anchored to southerly located towers that are affixed to bedrock. The machine's elevation is not supported by transferring forces to the surface through the inertia of precision-guided high velocity components, thus these components are not necessarily exposed to seismic activity, weather, or anomalous air traffic.
Elevated Load-Bearing Platform
23.02.2017
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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