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Guest: Dr. Bryan Laubscher. Topics: Carbon nanotubes, new manufacturing, Space Elevator. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a violation of our copyright and are not permitted without prior written consent, even if for your own use. We do not permit the commercial use of Space Show programs or any part thereof, nor do we permit editing, YouTube clips, or clips placed on other private channels & websites. Space Show programs can be quoted, but the quote must be cited or referenced using the proper citation format. Contact The Space Show for further information. In addition, please remember that your Amazon purchases can help support The Space Show/OGLF. See www.onegiantleapfoundation.org/amazon.htm. For those listening to archives using live365.com and rating the programs, please email me as to why you assign a specific rating to the show. This will help me bring better programming to the audience. We welcomed Dr. Bryan Laubscher back to the program for our 2 hour 22 minute discussion about carbon nanotubes and the Space Elevator. During our first segment, Dr. Laubscher talked about carbon nanotubes, the manufacturing process, how to move the process and technology forward, end uses for the product, possible timelines for advancement and the current day use of Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) in the process. Bryan talked about the need to find a better process for making carbon nanotubes than CVD. Later is this segment, Dr. Laubscher was asked about the potential relationship to space other than with the space elevator. This was an interesting discussion , don't miss it. In our second segment, Bryan talked about how hard and challenging the space elevator was and later in the segment, due to a call from Pooley, we went through many of the top challenges faced by the elevator with a status report on each one. As this segment was opening, I did ask Bryan for a time line for space elevator advancement. Our guest suggested that at some point, there would be significant demand for the elevator. Next, we talked about the upcoming International Space Elevator 2014 Conference to be held at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, August 22-24, 2014. For conference info, visit www.spaceelevatorconference.org. John from Ft. Worth called to talk about materials, composites and much more. We also talked about the strength needed for the elevator ribbon and John asked about SSTO. Blaze emailed us about nuclear waste and Bryan had an interesting take on it. This was another valuable discussion, don't miss it. Dr. Laubscher talked about ribbon length, characteristics, strength needed, and its location in space, plus the counter weights it would need. Adrian emailed several questions to us about the ribbon breaking and related issues. He also asked our guest radiation issues. Doug emailed about ways to climb up and down the ribbon. Some of the other issues that came up were wind, lightening, ribbon oscillation, space debris, policy & regulatory issues. As our program was ending, Bryan offered us words of wisdom and said his company website was www.odysseustech.com. In addition, Dr. Peter Swan emailed us about his paper on the elevator which you can download and read at www.virginiaedition.com/media/spaceelevators.pdf. Post your comments/questions on TSS blog. You can reach Dr. Laubscher through his website or me.

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08 Jun 2014 Dr. Bryan Laubscher
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