Rotating Space Elevator Propels its Own Load

May 22, 2009 | Source: PhysOrg.com

West Virginia University physicists have introduced the idea of a Rotating Space Elevator (RSE), a rotating system based on a floppy string that forms an ellipse-like shape.

It would theoretically use energy from both geosynchronous rotation around Earth and the internal rotation of the string system around the axis perpendicular to the Earth to raise objects.