In reply to Wesley Bruce's message of Sat, 08 Oct 2005 15:19:41 +1000: Hi, [snip] >>>A key to space elevators, solar chimney technologies and big flying jet >>>stream windmills is *zero weight building materials*. I have a design >>>for such a material; an expanded foam filled with hydrogen and helium. >>>Its meant to be Buoyant up to 5 km and ultralight but stiff above that >>>hight. >>> >>> >> >>IOW it would be buoyant for the first 0.01% of the distance. >> >> >> >Your probably correct. I'll settle for a thousand meters.
That would make it 0.002 %. In short, this measure is useless. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk In a town full of candlestick makers, everyone lives in the light, In a town full of thieves, there is only one candle, and everyone lives in the night.

