Elevated Load-Bearing Platform

摘要

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.

主权项

1) An apparatus for elevating at least one facility above the surface of a planetary body, wherein the apparatus comprises at least one bearing where the circumference of said at least one bearing is smaller than the circumference of said planetary body and yet large enough to completely encircle a portion of said planetary body, and a plurality of high-tech stays connected between said at least one bearing and at least one anchor point positioned on the protruding side of said planetary body, where:
a. For at least one discrete portion of the at least one bearing, a tensile force vector generated by at least one high-tech stay combines through a coupling mechanism with an inertial force vector produced by the at least one moving ring to generate a resultant force vector that acts in opposition to the downward force of gravity. b. For said at least one discrete portion of the at least one bearing, neither said tensile force vector nor said inertial force vector on their own act in direct opposition to the downward force of gravity.