Christopher James Huff :
This is a major beef to me. Naysayer keep talking about the beanstalk as it is made out off copper, considering it's lenght and small cross-section it would have a very high total resistance even if made out of a good conductor. However the fibers are imbedded in a non-conducting resin and the max tensional strenght of a composite material occurs when the fibers are not touching but rather have 100 percent coverage with resin. This type of composite will be a poor conductor no matter what the internal fibers are made of.
Additionally, a question I asked before that was never answered. Someone claimed that bucky tubes were Ballistic SuperConductor with an internal resistance of less than 7000 ohms no matter what thier length were, but no-one stated what happens if two BSCs touch each other in series - does the total resistance still stay at the same value as a single cable or the sum values of both cables?
Earl Colby Pottinger